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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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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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watsonx.ai to have a feature for clients to bring their own foundational models and also be able to retrain these models for specific industry (telco)

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, and has raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. This feature being unavailable is a roadblock to their adoption of watsonx. They want to bri...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Maintenance screen to manage output tables from rules

We are currently using the DB2 Warehouse feature to store output from rules in a new style project. However, this request is not specific to DB2. There is no screen in CP4D which would allow user to manage the output tables that would relate the t...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to create custom role in Data Virtualization

At the moment, Data Virtualization (aka DV) comes with 4 pre-defined roles, i.e. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_3.5.0/svc-dv/dv_user_management.html After virtualize some table, if user wants to grant others access to the ne...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

'Publish asset' permission in Watson Query

Customer requests a new permission in Watson Query to 'publish asset'. This permission should be assignable to any user, regardless of their WQ role. This new permission would provide customers with the flexibility to determine which specific user...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Even Multiple files exists on S3,it should be able to data virtualize.

Currently it is possible to virtualize data if there are only 1 file in folder. If client wants to virtualize data on S3, they have to create many folders.
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Request to have a Auto Loader of Platform Connections Page instead of "Show More" Option

On the Platform Connection Connections Page while you try to browse your existing connections after limited connections got listed we have a "Show More" Button which then updates/shows the next available connections, If we have more than 150 to 20...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataStage/OEM Compatibility with Windows 2022

We use DataStage 11.7 version in windows 2016 as of now and we create runtime deployment DataStage job artifacts to run through OEM package. Now we are considering to upgrade our system with windows 2022. We need any DataStage version or it's OEM ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Under review

WQ - Delta Lake format support

WQ/BigSQL supports hive style partitioning, but but it does not support delta lake format at the present time. For example, today we can query data stored in parquet files on ADLS. It would be fantastic to extend this to support the new Delta Lake...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review