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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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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.

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Allow override of built-in BRNAME and BRADDR standardization rules

We are migrating standardization rules from IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) to Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) DataStage NextGen. During the migration, our customized Brazilian standardization rules BRNAME and BRADDR cannot be imported because C...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

UI doesn't show what assets and what catalog a publish job worked with

defect #: TS022691516 how does one find in UI what assets and what catalog did a publish job publish assets to.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

CP4D - Apache HDFS Connector (Flow Connection) - Enhancement Request - keytab file - Parameterization

Hi Team, Please refer to the case #TS020958108 for complete details. if we design the flow connection from the scratch. We have to manually encode the keytab file which is present in the application path or a specific Linux path. This is a manuall...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

We need an enhancement regarding the exact drag&drop facility in transformer stages coming with CP4D datastage just the way it has been working in IIS Datastage.

It would be quite handy since we get to use it in legacy datastage.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

Display minor version on the About page

At present the About page on the Software Hub UI only shows major versions for example 5.3 instead of 5.3.x . Business users cannot validate the version number
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted