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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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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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Add the ability to filter by Status in the Metadata Import process.

This enhancement would enable users to apply filters based on the status of metadata items during the import process. By incorporating a Status filter, users can efficiently manage their metadata by quickly identifying items relevant to their curr...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add a feature to assign data classes based on the assigned business term, with the option to choose the behavior of data class assignment.

This enhancement would involve reconfiguring the data class assignment service to operate based on the business term assigned to each asset. Users should have the flexibility to select how data classes are assigned: either following the default be...
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enhance the MDI scope configuration to retain previously selected tables when updating the scope.

Currently, when users configure the MDI scope and select specific tables, they must reselect all tables each time they update the scope. This process can be tedious and time-consuming, especially for users working with large datasets. By implement...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable the ability to create custom asset objects directly through the user interface.

Currently, users can only create custom asset objects using the REST API, which may be challenging for those who are not familiar with API interactions. By adding support for creating custom asset types directly through the user interface, users w...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Add support for JKS (Java KeyStore) files in connection configurations.

Add more connection options to support JKS (Java KeyStore) files instead of only allowing SSL certificates in plain text format. Currently, connection configurations only permit the use of SSL certificates in text form, which limits flexibility an...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
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Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Renaming none to blank space in the picklist function in TM1

Renaming none to blank space in the picklist function in TM1
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted