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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Job Details view window limitations

There are actually two problems regarding this Job Details view: 1. There is no easy navigation from a given design view of a flow or pipeline to the corresponding Job Details window 2. There is no way back from this Job Details window back into t...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Audit Info: Capture failed login user id in Splunk logs.

In it's current state, CP4D audit logs do not capture failed login attempts user id's in logs that are forwarded to Splunk. This puts us in violation of GIS Audit policy non-compliance. Additional info available in IBM Support Case # TS016073601.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

CP4D - Need API for Zen database to collect user and group information

As per the UIOLI process, we need to pull user, group and last accessed timestamp of a user for CP4D. This is inline with case #TS015500667, we are able to see the required information of users and groups in ZEN database. Now, we want to know if t...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Allow using “GCS Staging” when reading from Google BigQuery using read-method "General"

When using the Google BigQuery connector in read-method "Select Statement" it is possible to configure a bucket (Google Cloud Storage = GCS) for better performance. When using the read-method "General" such a configuration is not available. It wou...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to backup & restore individual services without needing to restore the entire namespace

With the exception of a few services, customers currently only have the ability to backup and restore the entire namespace. Customers require the ability to backup and restore individual services, rather than the current 'all-or-nothing' approach....
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

download user group, roles and permissions

to be able to download a list of all available user groups and roles to be able to see what has been set up and available to use that is more accessible than the current hover over pop up on each item. at the moment it is very difficult to see wha...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data 2 Needs more information