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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Support the use of UV instead of Anaconda

UV is very quickly becoming the new industry standard for managing Python packages. It is extremely fast compared to Anaconda and in our HPC plaform this would resolve many performance-related issues in Conda package/env deployments and updates. O...
10 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Display and Manage Persistent Volume (PV/NFS) Information in PAW Administration

For IBM Planning Analytics Cartridge on Cloud Pak for Data , TM1 data is stored on Persistent Volumes backed by NFS, NAS, or CSI storage. However, There is no visibility in PAW about where the data directory is mounted. The admins must run oc comm...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned.

paw search code functionality to be extended to PAfE

Currently in PAW, we can search for a specific keyword within TIs and Rules. While this is a welcome move, it would be great to extend that functionality for PAfE reports being published. This will ensure we can proactively investigate and perform...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Integration with Service Now

Integrate with Service now for CPD alerts and warnings so that automatically service now incident get created.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow regular users to view account and company hierarchies

Some of our users in central group accounting want to have the possibility to view the hierarchies in Cognos Controller (Account and Company) Preferably by being able to view it in the menus "Maintain - Account Structure - Define" and "Maintain - ...
3 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted