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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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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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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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Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Integration with Databricks Unity Catalog

We are seeing a lot of Databricks Customers who are using the Databricks UC. So, if we can add a step to push the assets from projects in the Databricks UC in addition to our own Catalog, we would be able to satisfy customers requirements.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Provide an estimated Bob Coins cost before running a task

Before starting a Bob task, users should be able to see an estimate of how many Bob Coins the operation is expected to consume. Today, the actual cost of a complex task can be difficult for a user to anticipate. This becomes particularly important...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Allow administrators/users to mandate a specific model

IBM Bob intelligently selects AI models depending on the task, which is a useful default behaviour. However, enterprise customers should also have the ability to require a specific model for certain tasks, projects, repositories, or categories of ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Provide model-level traceability for every IBM Bob task

IBM Bob can dynamically select different AI models depending on the task being performed. This is a very interesting approach from a performance and cost perspective, but enterprise users should be able to know which model was actually used for ea...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Add schema filter to governance catalog search

User wants to be able to filter by Schema when searching through the governance catalog, however that is not possible. In Global Search there is a filter for Schema and it finds the schema in the catalog, but searching directly inside the catalog ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

SWH 5.4 - Agentic AI - Publishing asset from project to catalog is not supported using MCP server

Publishing assets from project to catalog is not supported using Data Intelligence MCP server
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Hover over governance artifacts

Currently, the descriptions of governance artifacts are only available in the documentation and in configurations and settings -> manage assets and artifact definitions. For example, explanations such as what a category is, its purpose, its lif...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration