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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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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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Dimension Editing in PAW needs more Safeguards to Prevent Catastrophic changes

It is far to eash to "corrupt" a dimension in PAW. Others have noted that defaulting to dimension editing when double-clicking could allow admins to inadvertently make changes. The warning about immediately applying changes is helpful. My specific...
about 2 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Require a reload certs button on the instance level in cluster page

Enhancement : Need a certificate reload button at the instance level on the cluster page, when the user selects the instance and clicks on the Reload Certs Button all the interfaces should load the new certs and re-establish the connections. Curre...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Possibility to manually edit shortcut url-path

If a report or dashboard change name we need to create a new shortcut. We would like to have the possibility to easily edit the shortcut url-path.
about 5 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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...
1 day 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...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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

Possibility to set userid/password via script

We do not have access to production servers and have to request operators to set the userid/passwords for Cognos CM and RS service. We do not want to manage passwords in clear text.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

IP restrictions for public administrative access (dedicated VPC)

Restricting the devices that can connect from public environments by IP address is a requirement of the customer's security policy and is requested by Japanese customers.This function was implemented in Gen2, but not in Gen3, and this has been poi...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

Watsonx.ai / AI Factsheet should provide a control between the Deployment space stage_type and the Use Case tag being associated with the Deployment space

Currently, a deployment space with stage_type=Production can be associated to a Use Case as workspace "Develop". This will cause problems when trying to associate the correct Use Case workspace. The control works when at the level of association b...
4 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted