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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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  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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Enable Mermaid Diagram Rendering in Chat Interface

We request the enhancement of IBM watsonx Orchestrate (WXO) chat interface to support native rendering of Mermaid diagrams directly within chat responses. Currently, when Mermaid syntax is included in responses, it is displayed as plain text, requ...
about 20 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Enable Watsonx Orchestrate to store user-uploaded files in customer-owned Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets with strict logical segregation by user or tenant.

EY requires full control over file storage to meet internal compliance and data sovereignty standards. Currently, user-uploaded files are stored in shared IBM-managed COS environments, which raises concerns around data ownership, isolation, and go...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises like EY require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to vario...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Voicegateway tenant config support for vaults

In a multi-tenant setup, currently voicegateway tenant config file is a normal file in which cpd service bearer tokens and credentials for speech-adapters are visible and this file is base-64 encoded in a secret within Openshift. This does not pro...
8 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Implement rate limiting

wxO is used externally in B2C mode, asking for rate limiting for several aspects : - Security, to avoid a DoS attack and wxO to become less responsive,- Consumption, avoiding consuming too many token, and having a too long conversation to redirect...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Support for CDC - MySQL Database

The customer, Life Insurance Corporation of India, is planning to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on their MySQL databases as part of their database security initiative.
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Add “Includes any of the selected users/area” filtering option

When applying filters, it would be highly beneficial to also have an option like “includes any of the selected users/area.” This enhancement would provide more flexibility in filtering, for ex for fields such as Action Owner. Ideally, this option ...
10 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Execution Order of Before SQL and SELECT with Runtime Column Propagation Enabled in Redshift connector.

When Runtime Column Propagation (RCP) is enabled in Redshift connector, DataStage executes the SELECT statement during the stage check phase to infer metadata. If the SELECT depends on a table or view created dynamically in Before SQL, the job fai...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review