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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Allow relations to be defined between drafts

In certain cases we would like to leave terms/rules in draft state until they are 'ready' - meaning there is no published version. These objects should have relationships between them. Thus we'd need a way to create relationships between two draft...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automate install using ACM

Automate the installation and configuration of IBM Cloud Pak for Data using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM). There is a git repo available that explains how this can be completed via policies and kustomize, but it fully supported via helm.R...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Automated resource management for CP4D via API and YAML (or equivalent) – for users, groups, projects entities

As the user numbers on the on prem CP4D and wx.ai clusters are scaling the client wants to be able to limit resources for the developers in an automated way via APIs defined by YAML or similar. Limiting resources is available as of today in a supp...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to support a configurable list separator

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to configure list separator as semicolon. In Europe decimal notation is comma which means that MS Excel converts comma separated files to semicolon separated files automatically when loaded. This wil...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics version with 2-3 years maintenance, independently from other software versions deployed on same cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Any dependency to the version of another software deployed as well on the same Software Hub cluste...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Profile and QA a dataset using RDS composite keys

Most of our RDS have composite keys to create unique codes for different countries and systems. Having an option to use a subset/ filter/where clause using the composite keys of an RDS to profile or quality assure data would be useful. Sample cust...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Unconsolidated Permissions

Problem: I expected to have all permissions at the "Access-control" Tab. Unfortunately it is not like this. As I know by today there are also permissions to be set at the "Data>Connectivity" Tab and I don't know where else there are. This makes...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Custom property restriction by Categories that applies to Categories

There are multiple cases where we have a need to restrict Category Custom properties to be shown/not shown
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Custom property restrictions by Classifications

There are some cases where Classification will require some custom properties to be shown or not for the artifacts
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration