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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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Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Replacing the internal registry in CPDS with an enterprise-grade registry could reduce or eliminate issues and constraints during upgrades and daily operation.

The current built-in registry in CPDS has size and performance limitations which cause extra steps and troubleshooting when images are not saved properly during mirroring. CPD documentation suggests the included registry is not enterprise grade, a...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Milvus services on watsonx.data SaaS on IBM Cloud do not seem to support the bulk_import() method

Previously, we switched over how we insert vectors into our collections to use do_bulk_load per the watsonx.data documentation. It looks like do_bulk_load is getting deprecated, and the recommended method is now bulk_import. We’re trying to switch...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

OCC KPI / Monitoring / Health Check

OCC/EMC heartbeat or health check is required to ensure that consortium 1/2/3/4 can always talk to each client cluster instance 1/2/3/4. Also, KPIs and improved error messages are required for when there are failures of communication. Example, a 0...
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Support local authentication method to manage credentials on Informix using Hashicorp Vault

Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add a 'Created by' and 'Modified by' to PAW books in a 'Properties' menu

Hi! We manage an environment that has thousands of users and multiple developers (both internal and external). The environment is secured in a way where users have access to specific databases and no one should have access to more than one databas...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics v11 - add commentary on Dashboards in Context

capability to add comments on the dashboard either on a chart/object and overall dashboard. With the flexibility to show the comments based on the filters applied at the time.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration