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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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Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
3 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to Specify Target Fields for Natural Language Query (NLQ) in Watson Discovery

Currently, when using NLQ (Natural Language Query), all fields in a document are included as the search target. However, there are cases where certain fields should not be subject to natural language queries (e.g., fields like URIs that indicate t...
3 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules, a better way to visualize a large amount of rules and what they affect
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Folder Structure in DMC for WQ

LMCO requests changes/enhancements to the folder structure present in DMC/WQ UI. Currently, the folder structure is fairly rigid and maps only to the available schemas. This can be unwieldy when connecting to the database via JDBC. LMCO requests a...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Adjust order of objects starting with numbers

Is it possible to change the order of objects starting with numbers. Currently objects are being displayed in an ordering that works great if 0 to 9 is used. The moment 10 is used, the object display below 1 and not below 9 (which would be the log...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Credentials from HashCorp Vault (Data Gate for watsonx)

Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil, is known for its advanced cloud adoption, managing over 8,000 AWS accounts. This model, while providing agility and independence, also increases the complexity and potential security risks. To mitigate the...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review