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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.

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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Folder Structure in DMC for WQ

LMCO requests changes/enhancements to the folder structure present in DMC/WQ UI. Currently, the folder structure is fairly rigid and maps only to the available schemas. This can be unwieldy when connecting to the database via JDBC. LMCO requests a...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Customizing Cognos files / Customized PODs

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** In Cognos Analytics on-prem customization of files in the Cognos Analytics install directory, e.g....
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics version with 2-3 years maintenance, independently from other software versions deployed on same cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Any dependency to the version of another software deployed as well on the same Software Hub cluste...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Different Cognos versions within one CP4D cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Different Cognos versions within one cluster must be possible.Helmcharts are required on-site for ...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

CJAP / Authentication

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics) *** Groups and roles are created dynamically over CJAP from the on-site BI database. These groups and ro...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DB2 Connection mixed Settings when using vault

A the moment I have to set all parameters into a vault, if I choose "Use secrets from a vault". This is some sort of stupid, because in my opinion parameters like applicationname or client hostname have nothing todo with a secret. Unfortunately he...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Unconsolidated Permissions

Problem: I expected to have all permissions at the "Access-control" Tab. Unfortunately it is not like this. As I know by today there are also permissions to be set at the "Data>Connectivity" Tab and I don't know where else there are. This makes...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

Replacing the internal registry in CPDS with an enterprise-grade registry could reduce or eliminate issues and constraints during upgrades and daily operation.

The current built-in registry in CPDS has size and performance limitations which cause extra steps and troubleshooting when images are not saved properly during mirroring. CPD documentation suggests the included registry is not enterprise grade, a...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted