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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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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,

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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Auto selection of same Object type Primary Parent.

Currently , when a existing primary parent is disassociated , the new primary parent is selected based on chronological order even when we update the heuristic setting to "Folder Context". For example if the Risk is the Primary Parent of the Contr...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Collection "ansible.controller" not included in the Base Training Model

Two clients have asked the ability to develop some ansible playbooks using the config as code ansible collection from Red Hat named 'ansible.controller'. This collection is not part of the default base granite LLM model training. Instead the 'awx....

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Documentation update regarding DataStage Roles and Capabilities

Every DataStage team in the world needs a quick reference to the DataStage roles/permissions/capabilities which is easily understandable and comprehensive at a glance. There isn't one in the manual, it's just a bunch of overly-complicated text. So...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Make external links on CPD landing page and in 'Hamburger Menu' editable

External links on CPD landing page and in 'Hamburger Menu' need to be editable to allow customers/business partner to
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide an Option to search calculations by Name and by Object

In Openpages 9.0.x version also if user want to check how many calculations are created on an object. there is no way to filter. If IBM consider this enhancement and implement will benefit lot of customers.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Folder in watson studio for DataStage files

For InfoSphere DataStage user who transition to NextGen DataStage, they find it very messy if they cannot organize DataStage related files in folder.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review