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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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Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection.

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection. Currently, there is no direct way to manage data assets by filtering them through a specific connection. Adding this feature would provide users with more...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add a feature to assign data classes based on the assigned business term, with the option to choose the behavior of data class assignment.

This enhancement would involve reconfiguring the data class assignment service to operate based on the business term assigned to each asset. Users should have the flexibility to select how data classes are assigned: either following the default be...
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

View file attachments in OP UI without downloading. Also view file attachments in Cognos reports

We would benefit greatly from a built-in file/attachment viewer capability. Something that allows users to view file attachments within the OP UI without having to download them to their workstation. File attachments uploaded in OP are only viewab...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

db2u-operator should be able to restore a DB to a point in time

Currently db2u restores a database and rollforwards it to end of logs per default. The point in time restore option is an essential feature in every modern DB, and in OpenShift-environments even more so since logging in into the db2-container shou...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Under review

Risk to Risk Linkage

We propose that the SOXRisk object should adopt a recursive structure similar to the SOXBusiness Entity and Sub-Process objects. This adjustment would address frequent customer requirements where a risk higher in the business hierarchy needs to be...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review

Custom steps in remediation workflows

Possibility of including refinery jobs, datastage jobs, remote API (eg: create a Jira ticket..), ... or other integrations in one of the steps of the remediation flow.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Optimizer related catalog tables to be temporal

I am aware that a few more tables in the Db2 catalog will be made temporal. This idea is to make ALL catalog tables that the optimizer uses to be temporal. This will enable the user community and also Db2 zAI to extract the statistics that were in...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review