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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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Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0

Need a function for excel link and reports for the "Country or Region" code seen in Company structure.

In the Company Structure “Maintain > Company Structure > Define…” there is a field “Country or Region”. The customer requires a there a function to retrieve this information in Controller reports or the Controller Excel link. IBM have confir...
22 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Support Kerberos credentials in Data Refinery

Currently as per the most recent versions of Cloud Pak for Data we can't use our connection to Apache Hive on Cloudera 7 because of the fact that we strictly use Kerberos authentication there. We can't use simple passwords. This makes it so that c...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review
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More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Snapshot from Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel

The ability to snapshot a cube view while working in PA for Excel is no longer available. The only option to go from the viewer to Excel is by exporting to one of the report formats. Although useful in many use cases, this is sometimes not realist...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Adding "thinking" parameter in Wastonx SDK and API for Granite-3.2-8b-Instruct to access the dynamic reasoning capability.

Reason:As per https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-3-2-open-source-reasoning-and-vision, granite 3.2-8b-Instruct comes with a dynamic reasoning capability which can be achieved using the "thinking" parameter by setting "thinking=True"...
10 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Need configuration option to force uniqueness across all users within a CPD instance

Need configuration option to force uniqueness across all users within a CPD instance (account tenancy boundary respected) to create a project all time with a unique name. if the project any project name is already exist UI shouldn't be allow to cr...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted