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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review

Credentials from HashCorp Vault (Data Gate for watsonx)

Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil, is known for its advanced cloud adoption, managing over 8,000 AWS accounts. This model, while providing agility and independence, also increases the complexity and potential security risks. To mitigate the...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted