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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add terms in IKC to Automatic term assignment

Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for [automatic] term assignment’ –From IBM Documentation. Can we have the option to consider these for ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

UI fix in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Better pagination in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window. When searching for an asset within a catalog, change from 'show more' to a multi select e.g. 20, 50, 100 rows (similar to business glossary.) **
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all in UI

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all. Would like this function in UI, not just API.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Multiple users should be able to be added as asset owners

Multiple users should be able to be added as asset owners to make managing assets easier for a number of users in multiple departments.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Enable ability to enforce duplicate prevention of data assets between catalogs.

There is currently no way to enforce the prevention of duplicate assets between catalogs.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Sort engines by alphabetical order in the datastage console

We created an engine spdsengqlf05 before the engine spdsengqlf04 and they seem to appear in creation order (or xmeta database order) in the console indode the drop down engine list at top right of the screen.
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fix the Python Extension Input node in 18.5

Modeler 18.5 The new option for writing native Python code (pandas-like) in Extension nodes is incomplete because the Extension Input node does not allow assigning a dataframe for the data; instead, you must use the Extension Input node solely fo...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration