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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Manta Alation Export - SAML Authentication Support

Current version of Manta does not support SAML authentication for Alation export connection. Currently, we are using a work around in place by using a local account for Alation export authentication. According to our company security policy, this ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Implement ability to force terminate PAfE executions on TM1 Server

In certain situations, we have observed that PAfE executions cannot be cancelled through TM1Top or through the CancelOperation method within REST API. These threads subsequently block dimension updates (READ locks prevent all other WRITE actions, ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow mixed case for userids for Cognos/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted