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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Drive Explorer needs to be able to unzip 7zip files

Our backups for Planning Analytics are created using 7zip, however we are currently unable to unzip these from within Drive Explorer. So with the decommissioning of Remote Access to the server, we would have to download these files, unzip them, th...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release
110 VOTE

NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Future consideration

Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review

Save GitHub API Keys to }ElementAttributes_}Clients

The GitHub repository connections from PAW Workbench are great. To improve the user experience, it would be great if the private key, public key and passphrase for a particular user can be stored, so that we do not need to manually enter them ever...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Archer connector

we use archer application for Risk Assessment and Prioritization: Archer facilitates risk identification, assessment, and prioritization using built-in methodologies and user-defined metrics . Compliance Management: The platform supports automated...
10 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Clickstream Phase2 connector

Clickstream data is a record of a user's actions on a website or app, including clicks, page views, and interactions. Clickstream data can be used to analyze user behavior, customer data, and marketing campaigns. It is becoming more and more impor...
10 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Workday connector

Workday unites HR and finance on one AI platform to help elevate humans and supercharge work to keep business moving forever forward. As Workday has become an integral part of the companies employee relationship process, it would be ideal to have ...
10 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted