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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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Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Support of Active Directory Groups or Cognos Groups in PAW local

At the moment there is no possibility to import user and Groups from Active Directory or Cognos to PAW. The users and groups have to be imported manually via csv File We would like to have the possibility to manage user and groups for PAW in Activ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW: allow multiple Workbenches to be open at the same time

When you have multiple projects or activities saved as individual Workbenches, you can only have one open at a time. Cannot reference other Workbenches or open more than one simultaneously, so have to continuously open, save, copy, screenshot, clo...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow us to use the profile tables to set the ACCUMACC zparm more granular

At the present time we have ACCUMACC set to 20. We have had to set this to 1 for problem determination purposes. In our active system it causes issues with our SMF jobs when we have done this for even a short time. We would like the ability to use...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1

We need to address CVE-2023-20861 in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 and to address this we need Spring framework updated in 7.3 1 version from current 5.2.22 to latest version.
19 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Under review

Open index endpoint for ODBC Data Connector

The current implementation of the ODBC Data Connector does not expose an open index ("/") endpoint for the API. When using an azure application gateway for routing, the gateway uses a health probe that by default query the index of the underlying ...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Using the VS Code wca.core.chat.focus Open chat command, put keyboard focus in the chat window

VS Code offers commands as a keyboard-driven approach. I can hit cmd+shift+p, type wca chat, hit enter, and the WCA window is right there ...... except to get keyboard focus in the chat box i have to hit shift+tab twice! Put keyboard focus in the ...