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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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    Intellij IDEA support as IDE

    My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
    about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

    The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

    Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
    11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Not under consideration

    When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

    This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

    User activity logs on Cloudpak for Data Platform.

    There is no logs of user activity on the platform. It would be great to have a user friendly page on the platform, where admin can just to look and get the details of user activity on the platform. Currently, i use zen-audit logs from cmd line to ...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

    Light Theme in CP4D

    A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

    SSH/SFTP Server for PVC Filetransfers

    We would like to have the ability to run a ssh/sftp server, to be able to easily upload and download files from/to cloud pak for data. Most of our current processes are scheduled with IWS and there are simple shell file copys implemented. Reasons:...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

    The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Submitted

    Need UI feature through which the CP4D administrator can create and manage guaranteed resources pool(s) for high priority workload based on label selectors

    CP4D customers (RBC in this case) have many users working on the platform to create various jobs, tasks and different types of AI/ML workload on daily basis. Some of these projects have higher priority and more strict timelines than others, wherea...
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

    Handling commas in RDS codes

    When uploading codes with commas in the code, the RDS will export with \\ to manage the comma. The \\ need to be replaced with a double quote to align with csv formatting best practices.
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

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