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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  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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Catalog users need to kick off a feedback workflow on a catalog item

There is a lack of a feedback workflow module in IKC and this impacts our ability to fully leverage the platform capabilities. Users of the data catalog can currently provide comments and rating regarding an asset, but this doesn't kick off a proc...
about 3 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enable NPU and alternative AI accelerator support for IBM Bob on-premises Code Assistant.

Many enterprises are interested in running Code Assistant on-premises, but GPU infrastructure cost, availability, power consumption, and procurement constraints are major barriers. Supporting NPU and other alternative AI accelerators would allow c...
about 21 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Dashboard visualisation top 10 should have an option to use olympic and dense ranking

Within a dashboard, if you limit a chart to show the top 10 it uses DENSE ranking to show the top 10. Dense ranking is the most uncommon type of ranking, Olympic ranking is far more common and the usual default. Take the following data set of Prod...
about 13 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Trace ingestion via Kafka

This idea is on how to improve the resiliency of watsonx.governance SaaS. Today, detached prompt template traces are sent only through the API, so if the service returns an error or becomes unavailable, they cannot submit traces and must implement...
6 days ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Enable tools to use member credentials through Microsoft Teams and the Orchestrate Agent API

Requested enhancement Enable tools to use member credentials when an agent is accessed through external channels. IBM watsonx Orchestrate should identify the requesting user and run tool actions on behalf of that user, using the credentials and pe...
about 20 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Expose Data Gate Table Replication Status in Db2 LUW Catalog and/or Administrative Views

Applications using IBM Db2 Data Gate typically connect directly to the target Db2 LUW database and do not maintain connectivity to the source Db2 for z/OS system. Currently, table-level replication metadata is available through Data Gate APIs and ...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Create CCA MCP Server builder using workflows UI.

Banco do Brasil (BdB) is one of the world's largest Watson Assistant users and is actively migrating their customer-facing virtual assistant to watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) using the Customer Care Agent (CCA) model. Building CCA solutions today requi...
15 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Support CRON expressions for DataStage job schedules in the UI

We schedule our DataStage ETL jobs from the UI. The scheduler only offers minutely, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, and each field accepts a single value. Common patterns cannot be defined: every N hours (for example every 8 hours) several ...

CDC Notification Handler — SMTP Connections Do Not Support SSL/TLS

The built-in IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture notification handler does not currently support SSL/TLS sockets for SMTP connections. Our organization’s SMTP service requires encrypted TLS communication and authenticated SMTP access. As a result, ...
about 6 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted