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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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Better pagination in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window. When searching for an asset within a catalog, change from 'show more' to a multi select e.g. 20, 50, 100 rows (similar to business glossary.) **
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all in UI

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all. Would like this function in UI, not just API.
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Multiple users should be able to be added as asset owners

Multiple users should be able to be added as asset owners to make managing assets easier for a number of users in multiple departments.
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Enable ability to enforce duplicate prevention of data assets between catalogs.

There is currently no way to enforce the prevention of duplicate assets between catalogs.
25 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Method to disable 'Select Server' prompt (using classic client)

Since Controller 11.0.1 FP2 IF2, the classic client now gives an extra 'Select Server' prompt/choice as soon as a user launches the client. The 'select server' selection screen appears *before* the 'Select Database' section (where the user chooses...
25 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
25 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add ability to specify no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings

Currently, there is no easy way to add no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy-settings It requires modifying a proxy-envs.json and...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Similar to Unix/Linux CLI to access Storage Volumes on CP4D

Currently on on-prem environment, We use Unix environment to place all the DataStage supporting files and we perform multiple actions on the files, using Unix commands like AWK / SED / CHMOD / Housekeeping Script Creation etc., . As we moving to C...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to Disable/Enable a Process within a Chore without removing it

It is time consuming when you want to not have a process run in a chore temporarily, to first go in and remove it from the chore, then secondly return later and lookup up the process from a long list of processes to reinstate it and then lastly mo...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release