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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Need the ability to copy collection configuration and data from one environment to another

The backup and restore script in Watson Discovery allows you to copy all collection configuration and data from one environment to another. However, it is not possible to copy date for a specific collection. This feature is useful when collections...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Need a crawler in Watson Discovery to crawl documents from Confluence

Confluence is a popular repository that many companies use. Currently there is no option to crawl Confluence documents.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

The Watson Discovery Web crawler should be able to crawl sites protected by ForgeRock Authentication SSO.

Currently the web crawler is not able to crawl sites protected by complicated protocol like SAML or OAuth, hence ForgeRock SSO Authentication does not work.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

IBM Database Management Console Migration

Hi All, We have learned that the IBM DMC(Database Management Console) doesn't have any inbuilt migration opportunities presented by itself. The migration that involves moving DMC from one host to another with minimal downtime and configuration...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

wlp 24.0.0.5 in Conductor2.5.0

To resolve below high risk vulnerability. IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vuln...
5 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.0 0 Submitted

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Add better pipeline failure notification stages/connectors like 11.7 on prem

We should have access to a Email Notification stage like on prem 11.7 has to allow us to notify an email group for failures and add specific job log/runtime data to the email. Not having this causes a lot of manual checking on jobs, and the built-...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted