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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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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: ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Scripting stages to handle Date objects without converting to Datetime

Right now, scripting stages in Data Collector automatically convert Date fields to Datetime as it passes through the pipeline. For example, the Jython Evaluator stage will take Date objects and map it to the java.util.Date class, adding a time com...
4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Needs more information

Forward CP4D Job logs to OpenShift supported log collector and forward it to an external log store

Customer would like to collect all Job/Run logs generated by Watson Notebook /Pipeline services , and forward it to an external central log store facilities . Currently they have configured OpenShift Cluster Logging operator (CLO) to collect all t...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

For Reconciliation reports in Cognos,Please group the party vs counterparty information rather than breaking the Party vs Counterparty relationships into multiple sections

Business Users have reported that they are facing issues with the reconciliation reports breaking the party vs counterparty information.
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information

Request ability to add Classification banner

Many Federal customers require the ability follow Federal Classification guidance in support of Classified deployments. In closed/classified environments, web services are required to denote the highest possible classification on an appropriately-...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Needs more information

PAfE to track PA-enabled Excel spreadsheets only

Threads/TM1top/The Session Monitor displays the PAfE version, Excel version, Excel workbook name, and Excel sheet/tab name of the current Excel workbook open by the user. Instead of displaying any Excel workbook open by the user, I believe it woul...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Component list for grouped elements in PAW

As a user I would like to see a component list of grouped elements. This helps me to navigate to the element I would like to change the properties for. Example: I have grouped a view and a text and a button. Now I would like to go to the propertie...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Support WITH RECURSIVE in PrestoDB (watsonx.data)

PrestoDB in watsonx.data doesn't support WITH RECURSIVE statement which is a blocker for selling watsonx.data to some of our potential customers. It would be important to have it supported as other data lakehouse solutions support it. For example ...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Needs more information