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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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SQL Tuning Services and full support of Security mechanism 18

We are about to finish the installation of SQL Tuning Services in our sandbox environment. What we learnt last week from Xuqin Zhao at the IBM lab is that the product currently not fully support Security mechanism 18, especially for db2_authid_R -...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

When (re-)creating dimensions (incl. attributes) CubeSecurity on corresponding }ElementAttributes_ cubes should be NONE and not WRITE (as it is today) by default.

Deny WRITE access on newly created attributes cubes by default, in order to prevent users from entering data/attribute values.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted
116 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

PA Cell Comment feature enhancement

Comment is a very useful feature for PA users, especially to maximize centralised interaction. This can be a powerful feature to differentiate with other analytics product offerings. However cell commenting feature is quite limited. As business pa...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
28 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Custom Image Approach to Integrate Advanced IDEs such as PyCharm or Visual Studio Code (VSCode) in Watsonx/CP4D

In the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Watsonx/CP4D, Python development is currently facilitated through Watson Studio Notebook and JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). While these tools are sufficient for many users, more techni...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists