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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Enhance the MDI scope configuration to retain previously selected tables when updating the scope.

Currently, when users configure the MDI scope and select specific tables, they must reselect all tables each time they update the scope. This process can be tedious and time-consuming, especially for users working with large datasets. By implement...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Enable the ability to create custom asset objects directly through the user interface.

Currently, users can only create custom asset objects using the REST API, which may be challenging for those who are not familiar with API interactions. By adding support for creating custom asset types directly through the user interface, users w...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Add support for JKS (Java KeyStore) files in connection configurations.

Add more connection options to support JKS (Java KeyStore) files instead of only allowing SSL certificates in plain text format. Currently, connection configurations only permit the use of SSL certificates in text form, which limits flexibility an...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Save to File option error

We are currently working on migrating OpenPages+Cognos from traditional VM to CP4D and see that one of the feature is having issues and details given below: When we execute a report and trying the save the report output to a file system (Save to F...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for Credential Guard when using Kerberos authentincation

Kerberos authentication should be possible when Credential Guard is enabled in Windows. Specially since it is be enabled by default in Windows 11. Lack of this functionality is basically a violation of support for Windows 11 and Kerberos on the pl...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

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...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Need Postgres connector to not use positional binding

We have tested with positional binding for one usecase and wanted to test it for multiple scenarios and it would be better if IBM can make it independent of positional binding.
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automation of code (UNIX scripts) deployment to storage volumes for CPD DataStage service

This is for automation of code especially unix scripts used for ETL batch processing by DataStage service on CPD platform. DataStage service needs storage volumes for processing files which are accessible by both conductor & compute PODs on CP...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review