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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.

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Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Job Status is not consistent in Sequences, Job Details and in Operations Dashboard

The job status in Sequences in Job Details and Operations Dashboard is not the same. For example in a Sequence it looks like the job is running and everything is ok: https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/CI-2191 Looking at the same job in Job de...
6 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

ORG CHART

Need a chart, like the one proposed on accelerator Catalog for Cognos : VIZ00006 (ibm.com), to show Organization Hierarchy (down to the employee) with capabilities to add some KPI
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

StreamSets Platform: SDK: Support for time-based SLAs on long-running jobs

Historically, StreamSets Control Hub and Data Collector had rules and alerts that could notify if pipelines/jobs hit a certain record count and other related metrics. These are only somewhat useful, such as for jobs which typically have a certain ...
6 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Provide a new project setting that prevents project editors from adding/modifying project files (API/UI/Runtimes)

The request is to give the ability for admins to create a project with flag in which editors are not allowed to create files in the project, all runtimes (not just notebooks) will mount the project data folder as read-only (instead of read-write)....
6 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Authentication Options For RestAPI for AWS PA

Hi, we would like to have the ability to use different authentication methods for AWS PA Rest. This is needed as clients feel that only having the Basic Auth is not secure enough. Could PA probably provide the same options as we already had in IBM...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Capability to specify workflow trigger based on the object attribute changes (minor change vs major change)

Two different solutions options: 1. Criticality of the attribute change will be defined based on mandatory vs optional attributes 2. In workflow configuration view, user can select relavant attributes to trigger the workflow
6 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review