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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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More details (metadata) inside virtualized table.

Add connection details to a virtualized asset. There is no easy way to see what connection or data source a virtualized asset is using.
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Upgrade to currently supported version of Spring

Master Data Management ships with very old, unsupported versions of Spring Framework. Financial regulators are asking financial institutions to eliminate packages that are no longer supported.
25 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Need ability for Schema level 'Deny' in WQ where filtering/masking applied

Want to prevent developers from accessing base virtualized objects in WQ, however when row level filtering is applied to those objects, the users with 'selectin' privs on the WQ schema can see/select the assets directly
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Ability to Disable/Enable a Process within a Chore without removing it

It is time consuming when you want to not have a process run in a chore temporarily, to first go in and remove it from the chore, then secondly return later and lookup up the process from a long list of processes to reinstate it and then lastly mo...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 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...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas 0 Submitted

Job Status is not consistent in Sequences, Job Details and in Operations Dashboard

The job status in Sequences in Job Details and Operations Dashboard is not the same. For example in a Sequence it looks like the job is running and everything is ok: https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/CI-2191 Looking at the same job in Job de...
26 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted