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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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Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Dimension Editing in PAW needs more Safeguards to Prevent Catastrophic changes

It is far to eash to "corrupt" a dimension in PAW. Others have noted that defaulting to dimension editing when double-clicking could allow admins to inadvertently make changes. The warning about immediately applying changes is helpful. My specific...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Include Custom Runtime Environments in Deployment Space Export/Import

When users migrate Deployment Spaces between IBM Cloud Pak for Data environments (e.g., for disaster recovery or CI/CD purposes), custom runtime environments used by assets are not included in the export/import process. This limitation causes impo...
15 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
15 days ago in watsonx.data 1 Submitted

Delivery of SOAM package with Python 3.13 support

> What is your expected timeline? As soon as possible as developers are currently blocked. By Friday 20th of June >The desired platform (Linux or Windows)? Linux x64 > The desired package (cluster package or DE package or client package?)...
about 5 hours ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Increase the Variable sub-window in debugger

The Variables sub-window (under Variable name ) cannot be expanded even if the Locks area is minimized. Even with variable filtering it sometimes requires scrolling to see all the variables of interest> it would be easier for the developer to h...
about 6 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

"No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration

Upon drag and drop a data item, data starts to load and sometimes causes performance issues and errors due to high volume of data. We need a "No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration just like Query Studio. For Query Studio, we have a paramet...
about 17 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Database configuration presentation options

Currently the Configuration screen of a database follows a model when after clicking on one of the 4 main groupings (Administration, Modelling, Performance and Access) the admin has to select a configuration option. Even with this type of prefilte...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted