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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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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

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

It would be really helpful for WXCA4Z to be able to ingest Assembler language code and be able to explain it. It would also be helpful to be able to transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++.

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...

Data modules connection to AI assistant directly

Can we Right click on any data module or shortcut of data module can we connect to AI assistant directly in Cognos
3 days ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
3 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

A integrated solution for connecting external databases.

Today if you need a external database connection for Planning Analytics on CP4D, you need to provision a Windows server to run the ODBC connector to act as an intermediary between your ODBC data and Planning Analytics. Planning Analytics will poin...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
3 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
11 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

List Dialog Assistant as Tool

This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review