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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.

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Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Submitted

Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Submitted

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Replacing the internal registry in CPDS with an enterprise-grade registry could reduce or eliminate issues and constraints during upgrades and daily operation.

The current built-in registry in CPDS has size and performance limitations which cause extra steps and troubleshooting when images are not saved properly during mirroring. CPD documentation suggests the included registry is not enterprise grade, a...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Milvus services on watsonx.data SaaS on IBM Cloud do not seem to support the bulk_import() method

Previously, we switched over how we insert vectors into our collections to use do_bulk_load per the watsonx.data documentation. It looks like do_bulk_load is getting deprecated, and the recommended method is now bulk_import. We’re trying to switch...
4 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

OCC KPI / Monitoring / Health Check

OCC/EMC heartbeat or health check is required to ensure that consortium 1/2/3/4 can always talk to each client cluster instance 1/2/3/4. Also, KPIs and improved error messages are required for when there are failures of communication. Example, a 0...
5 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

How to identify missing assets between IKC catalog and reporting DB

How to identify missing assets between IKC catalog and reporting DB so that we can re-trigger them
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Satellite Connector agent to be able to connect to 2 or more connectors

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
2 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted