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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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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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Increased document splitting limit to 15,000

This enhancement would help customers to use the document splitting feature for very large document corpus and avoid any custom solution. Currently implemented for our client with WEX, with documents being split into up to 15000 segments. Related ...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)

Unified transaction ID for logging & debugging

Need for a unified transaction ID for logging & debugging
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

OpenAPI Spec 3.1 support

Support for more API Spec versions beyond 3.0.x
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

Knowledge feature to support Chinese language

Knowledge of agent builder (built-in document upload) support Chinese.
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Future consideration

Document extractor needs Chinese documents support on-prem

Document extractor need Chinese documents support https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watson-orchestrate/current?topic=workflows-configuring-document-processors#adding-a-document-extractor
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information