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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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Simplification and consistency of "Covert to" options in PAx

"Convert to Snapshot" in right click menu can be confused with "Convert To" option in PAx ribbon when then functionality is different. "Convert To" allows conversion to other types of reports while "Convert to Snapshot" saves values as static in t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Error Messages in the Application should be user friendly And/Or Explain the cause of error

Error Messages in the Application should be user friendly And/Or Explain the cause of error so Business Users can rectify instead of going back and forth to implementation team.
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 7 Not under consideration

Custom Auth/Authz layer support

US Federal Government customer has their own custom authorization layer for applications. Internally they support an ABAC based infrastructure. Therefore they have a more complex authorization layer than standard roles/groups. Need to have the abi...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to review data on remote instances without having to move API to remote instance.

Today, when researching a data discrepancy between two instances in Advance Defense the API or BDI export process must be manually moved. When this occurs other access or processes can be negatively impacted. In order to comply with client SLAs, t...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Job Details view window limitations

There are actually two problems regarding this Job Details view: 1. There is no easy navigation from a given design view of a flow or pipeline to the corresponding Job Details window 2. There is no way back from this Job Details window back into t...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results. We can support querying across Projects by querying individual Projects in parallel and aggregating the results. However aggregating results from indepen...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow replication from Kafka as a source

It would be good to support replications from Kafka as a source to other targets. This idea might sound strange if this were the only replication happening, but this could be part of a "cascading" replication, e.g. if data is replicated from Db2 t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Get Search skill(Discovery) responses/logs via Assistant api(logs or a new analytics api)

Right now, AssistantV1 logs provides dialog skill logs only. Even if we provide assistant id, we do not get the search skill(discovery responses) logs. It will be good, if Assistant V2 also provides logs api or an analytics api, that can return bo...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Enable Jupyter Notebook

Our team is a data science team and we are using Cognos Analytics to provide analytics to our clients. We do several data quality metrics using Jupyter Notebook and we would like to make it available to our clients in a dynamic mode in Cognos. We ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

CM should allow LOG to be set at the SLA-level

We have a Connection Manager configuration that includes multiple SLAs. There are times when it would be incredibly useful to enable logging for just one SLA while leaving it disabled for all of the others. Currently, the only option is to spawn a...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration