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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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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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User Management as a Roles Permission

Move User Management Privileges from Global Privileges to a Role permission. Currently, user management is permissioned via a global privilege on a user's account. When the "user accounts" privilege is set to "change," the user can view and edit a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

Being able to change the GUI language directly from the GUI

Currently Cloud Pak for Data uses the preferred language of the browser to choose the language of the User Interface. Several customers in Spain have shown dissatisfaction with the Spanish or Portuguese translation as it uses words that are not co...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Enable JWT authentication in watsonx.data

Currently authentication to watsonx.data through REST and JDBC can only be done by specifying a user and password. Customer does not allow user and password authentication for any of the business applications. When users log on to their desktop, t...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Override filesystem option for DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD and DSNISMKD jobs

For modules that create USS directories, the following modules exist: DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD, DSNISMKD They will all create directories under /usr/lpp/db2 or /usr/lpp/db2c10 (or another variant) It's possible to invoke these programs with a ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to delete obsolete files

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to clean up unused or obsolete files.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration