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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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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 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

Browser last prompt location

Scenario: When the report have a lot of prompts and user needs to scroll down to see all the prompts. Problem: re-prompt button causes page refresh and web page returns at the beginning of the page.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

multi-language LLMs - availability in Europe

For many customers (not only public) it is needed to have availability of multi-language LLMs (i.e. llama 2) in european data centers to address GDPR requirements
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future consideration