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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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Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

CA 11.0.x unable

Need ability to use a PA 2.0.x instance, in IntegratedSecurityMode=5 as a data source for multiple CA 11.0.x environments. In latest TS000108380 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg2165...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add 'Time' to Report/object date modified properties

I create roughly 10 reports a day. Sometimes I want to choose a certain version but without the time it is hard to tell which version was the latest to be modified.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAPTCHA mechanism

A captcha mechanism should be implemented in all forms.It is recommended the CAPTCHAs to be validated on the server side. It is necessary to ensure that the CAPTCHA is valid for a single use and is invalidated after its use.Also, the following con...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New TI Datasource - json/xml/Web Service

Nowadays many applications are exporting data via web service (format could be json or xml), Planning Analytics has no options out of the box to support these type of data sources. At the moment, either using TM1py, or get some developer to write ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration