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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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Please create and publish a Flow scripting API so that it can be accessed from outside the IBM Cloud.

The customer wants to create Modeler Flow streams using natural language through IBM Bob. They are also looking to automatically integrate IBM Bob with Modeler Flow’s Flow scripting. However, since there are currently no publicly available APIs fo...
2 days ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio Submitted

Redshift Connector – Consistent Handling of Unused Source Columns

Scenarios where source and target schemas do not exactly match. In such cases, connectors should provide flexible handling of unused or extra columns to avoid unnecessary job failures and improve usability. Currently, the behavior of the Redshift ...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Redshift Connector – Consistent Handling of Unused Source Columns

Scenarios where source and target schemas do not exactly match. In such cases, connectors should provide flexible handling of unused or extra columns to avoid unnecessary job failures and improve usability. Currently, the behavior of the Redshift ...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Interoperable user memory across Orchestrate and other AI agent platforms

Watsonx Orchestrate user memory should interoperate with memory stores used by other AI agents and platforms. Problem 1 : Missing relevant memories . Users may interact with an agent through Watsonx Orchestrate, and also through other interfaces w...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Show Governance Rule description within Explore Relationship graph view

The request is that, in the Explore Relationships view, when hovering over the Governance Rule object (in my example, test GR), the object’s Description should also be displayed, just as it appears in the right-hand panel under the Item metadata t...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Data Virtualization connections in Cognos Analytics in Cloud Pak for Data should support Cloud Pak for Data API Key.

When creating a Data Virtualization connection in Cognos Analytics for Cloud Pak for Data, the only way to use an API Key successfully is by adding it as a connection parameter. This creates concerns about the ability to see that API Key inside th...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics Submitted

Minimize the permissions required to access the API /v2/runtime_definitions?include=launch_configuration

The client's data scientists use that API to increase temporary storage capacity when they need to create (in certain specific cases) a custom runtime with a resource-intensive library (such as LangChain, for example) for the online models they de...
25 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Support passthrough-only expressions in native SQL on Db2 for z/OS

It has been asked for before but at the last GUIDE GSE Germany it was once again discussed. The requirement is for some, at least the REGEXP_% ones, of the passthrough-only expressions to be really supported in Db2 for z/OS native. More and more d...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted