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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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.

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


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Parity of watsons.xdata with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsons.xdata service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Cur...
about 6 hours ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Allow for clear text NEWAUTHID in SYSIBM.USERNAMES

We use SYSPROC.DSNLEUSR to encrypt usernames and passwords that are stored in the DSNLEUSR table, The procedure encrypts both NEWAUTHID and PASSWORD. It becomes difficult to manage the SYSIBM.USERNAMES table as we cannot see the NEWAUTHID in clear...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Manta SAP HANA scanner to support calculation view

Why it is useful? SAP HANA at Truist uses calculation view intensively. There are a few key tables that get loaded via stored procedures and those stored procedures loads data from several calculation views and/or nested calculation view. Without ...
about 19 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Authorization assignment to user-roles on PAW book tabs

In PAW there is a specific assignment of right for PAW books. For our use case it would be beneficial to also be able to assign tabs inside a book to different user roles thus showing and hiding tabs depending on the user rights. This would enable...
about 21 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Alphabetical Sorting of Custom Attributes in Business Glossary Filters

When filtering the Business Glossary by Custom Attributes, the list of attributes appears unordered. We request that these attributes be listed alphabetically to improve user experience and ease of navigation during filtering.
about 22 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Auto-Assignment of Data Owner/Steward to Business Terms Based on Category

When a Data Owner or Steward is assigned to a Business Term Category, we would like that assignment to automatically propagate to all Business Terms under that category. This would significantly reduce manual overhead for governance roles.
about 22 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to Make Custom Attributes Mandatory

We would like the option to mark certain Custom Attributes as mandatory when creating or editing assets. This would help enforce data governance policies and ensure consistency in metadata population.
about 22 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Enable support AppDynamics agents

Hi, Following link Pod security context - IBM Documentation suggests any instrumentation of IBM container images on Cloud pak is restricted and moreover application performance monitoring tools such as AppDynamics are not supported. Can this be co...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted