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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.

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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Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

chat based field

Sometime when multiple people are working on an Object they would like to provide the feedback. can there be a field like chat based . so that in that field only they can add comments.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Under review

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Support of Active Directory Groups or Cognos Groups in PAW local

At the moment there is no possibility to import user and Groups from Active Directory or Cognos to PAW. The users and groups have to be imported manually via csv File We would like to have the possibility to manage user and groups for PAW in Activ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace multi PASS web host load balancing Feature

Currently in the IBM planning analytics PAW versions so far as of 11/25/24 , There is no ability to define multi host PASS web URLs in the PAW.env configuration file for PAW load balancing when respective host PASS web sheets are used in the paw w...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Ability to set limit, that can't be overridden, to number of records retrieved by a query

I know about the Governor setting "Maximum Number of Retrieved Rows", but this can be overridden by modifying the query property "Maximum rows retrieved" directly in the report.I would like the ability to set a limit that cannot be overridden.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

FastLoad support for Aurora PostgresqSQL

Recently CDC for PostgreSQL announced the support of fastload for PostgreSQL; however customer found out this feature is only available for standard PostgreSQL and it does not support for Aurora PostgreSQL. This is an enhancement request for fastl...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration