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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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Satellite Connector agent to be able to connect to 2 or more connectors

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

CDC Deployment on Red Hat Linux 9.x

Change Data Capture for Linux should be also available for Red Hat Linux 9.x. Actually it is only supported on RH 8.x.
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket

The current version of DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket. Due to security constraints, instead of using an access key/secret key, it would be ideal if the S3 connector allowed the use of IAM ro...
9 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Restore documentation to CPLEX Studio installer

CPLEX Studio 22.1.2 did away with the "doc" folder containing documentation for the components, including in particular the Javadoc documentation for the Java API to CPLEX. Having a local copy of the reference manuals is desirable when working off...

Support for Cognos Dashboards

Currently, the product supports lineage for Cognos models, reports, queries, and other objects, but not dashboards. However, dashboards are what users are interested in, and the lack of support in the product forces users to go outside it to conne...
9 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted