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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Removing excess space from the report in PAW

Problem Statement: We have developed a dynamic active form report for users, allowing them to select parameters such as Year and Department. When users select “Total Departments”, the report dynamically adjusts and utilizes the entire available sp...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Increase NRS backup size limit

Current NRS backup limit is about 2TB, this is kind small to us as we had NRS failures because the backup size exceeds the limit A larger NRS backup size can help to avoid nrs failures.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
2 months ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
11 months ago in Db2 2 Submitted

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
18 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

In Manta Admin UI - cDB2 connection validation should be successful when user is mapped to a DB Group/Role

Why is it useful? This ensures that required permissions needed by IBM Manta is in place. The scanner for cDB2 will produce desired data lineage for cDB2 database. Who would benefit from it? IBM Manta users. How should it work? In Manta Admin UI -...
18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Provide native capability to write metrics to a a standard product eg: prometheus

Platform teams wants pipeline metrics to be available to users through standard platforms such as prometheus. While can be worked around and instrumented, it should be out-of the box
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Provide out of box logging capability instead of having to resort to Groovy to write to log files

This would allow developers to instrument the pipeline and write key / custom logging to the log file. It could be implemented similar to how we allow creation of rules between stages
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Password credentials should not show the password once it has been entered. This is a security risk

Customers do not feel secure if the password entered can be shown back on the screen. It should be visible during entry and then permanently starred (***) out. This is how many other UI based applications behave today. Yes, we could tell customers...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Simplify expression evaluation notation and reference to variables

Currentlywe need a syntax of $ then a set of curly brackets {} and then a value. and for values, its record:value('/<the attribute>'). The above becomes very convoluted and long when you have a case statement of other long expressions. It wo...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted