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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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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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Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Create a default user temporary tablespace at the database creation

Create a default user temporary tablespace (user_tempspace1 ??) at the database creation.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Security

· Restrict custom host name (shared with host) · Restrict custom domain name (shared with host) · Disable container network namespace (shared with host) · Use of valid, user owned UID/GIDs (UID namespace is shared with host) · Must not attemp...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Back up the Secure Gateway from Planning Analytics Administrator

In a recent PA SaaS environment the Secure Gateway and associated Data sources disappeared from Planning Analytics Administrator. The Secure Gateway persisted as Cloud connections continued to render back to the source data bases. It would be bene...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gracefully handle table failures & send email alert

When a table fails due to structure or availability changes, the replication set should instead set the failed table to inactive instead of crashing capture. It should also send an email notification to alert of the issue.

Add dark theme for Watson Studio and Knowledge Catalog UI

Dark themes are popular for devs around the world, as it makes it easier on the eye when working long hours having to look at screens all the time. https://darkmodelist.com/
about 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to open a support ticket from tooling

One complaint I've heard from users is the ability to get help with Discovery. If users could open a ticket from tooling or even be directed to exactly where in IBM Console they go to open a ticket based on their account plan it could make for a s...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow the user to save multiple cluster dashboard layouts by name

Right now, the Cluster Dashboard is very monolithic, you every time you go there, you have to set it up the way you like it. Yes, you can save the dashboard, but it would be nice to have multiple saved dashboards so that you can quickly obtain the...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow Tagging of LSF Clusters and Filtering from Dashboard and Managmenet pages

Currently we have a lot of clusters for various functions and purposes. It would be nice to be able to tag clusters by function, production/test/dev, etc and then be able to filter the various pages by tagname. It would help cut down on clutter wh...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration