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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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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,

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  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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Add Hungarian ("hu") locale support to Watson Assistant Web Chat, including full localization of date/time formats and calendar UI elements

We would like to request support for the Hungarian ("hu") locale in Watson Assistant Web Chat, including full localization of built-in UI elements such as date/time formatting and the calendar component. Currently, the web chat supports the follow...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add STT/TTS trace and log visibility in voice channel

When using the voice (SIP) channel in WatsonX Orchestrate, there is currently no way to inspect what the STT engine transcribed from the user's audio input, nor what text was passed to the TTS engine for synthesis. This creates a significant obser...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Four configuration options are missing in Audio Settings panel

The current Audio Settings in WatsonX Orchestrate lack the granularity required for production-grade voice channel deployments. During our ongoing PoC with a banking client (SIP channel), we identified four missing configuration options that are n...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enhance DB2 LE Recoverabilty

This issue is related to a recent IBM case. Under certain situations and most likely related to a rare timing issue, the LE environment under which a DB2 stored procedure or function runs could become corrupted due to a possible storage overlay of...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enable additional user data points to be captured via the Agent Builder web chat

Within watsonx Assistant and Orchestrate's Assistant Builder web chat, the ability to capture the following 6 data points are available to capture about the end user: Timezone Language User ID Browser Info IP Address OS I see tha...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable user to switch between secure/unsecure experience of the same embedded web chat

This request is to enable a user to switch back and forth between the secured and unsecured embedded web chat experience. Essentially, this would enable the user to utilize the web chat in an anonymous manner at first, and then they could have the...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add parameter to chat that keeps track of how many seconds the conversation has lasted

This exists in the Assistant Builder embedded web chat where an event with the type of SessionExpired is triggered and we can listen for this as part of our session timeout flow. In the documentation (URL #1 & URL #2 & URL #3), I was unabl...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Job IDLE Detection (JOB_IDLE in lsb.queues) need "differential" idle detection

Sometimes we see interactive jobs that after some computation time (e.g. of several hours)the computation is finished and they (might) wait for a user interaction. So the job essentiallydoes nothing but keeping the LSF job running and resources al...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Under review

Allow CTEs in EXPLAIN FOR

Currently explain-statements with common table expressions likeEXPLAIN PLAN FOR ( WITH ONE AS (SELECT IBMREQD FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1) SELECT * FROM ONE);fail with message SQL0199N because the WITH is not supported.So EXPLAINing statements with CTEs...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enable ORCHESTRATE Support in Redshift Connector

Currently, ORCHESTRATE-based job design logic works correctly with the Teradata connector, but fails with the Redshift connector. This creates a functional gap during Teradata → Redshift migrations and forces redesign of existing, production-stabl...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review