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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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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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PAW: allow multiple Workbenches to be open at the same time

When you have multiple projects or activities saved as individual Workbenches, you can only have one open at a time. Cannot reference other Workbenches or open more than one simultaneously, so have to continuously open, save, copy, screenshot, clo...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
9 months ago in DataStage 0

Install CP4D using private registry in OCP with unqualified-search-registries configuration

If you are planning the installation of CP4D, but the customer has OCP configured with unqualified-search-registries (called also "image short names" and configured in image registry via containerRuntimeSearchRegistries). So, during installation, ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Under review

Ability to cancel user's own threads in IBM Planning Analytics

Provide a way for users to cancel in process views/threads/tasks they create in IBM Planning Analytics (local or cloud) through any interface. Occasionally users submit transactions or views that take a long time to complete, were submitted in err...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

SwapAliasWithPrincipalName for TM1 v12

Rename an element due to any possible reasons: A product needs a better name. An Employee changed maiden name. Company Re-Org CoA Change Input Correction In earlier version of TM1, understood SwapAliasWithPrincipalName is not supported, but is usa...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

DVM JDBC Gateway official documentation missing

The official DVM documentation does not provide the necessary steps to configure the DataSource connection configuration on JDBC Gateway using SSL and Kerberos on z/OS LPAR. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dvm/1.1.0?topic=ssl-enabling-support https://...
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow S3-compatible store for saas project storage

Currently only IBM Cloud Object Storage is available for project storage for saas watsonx.ai projects. Some clients want to make use of saas services for GPU and model compute but keep all of their project storage in on-prem S3 compatible stores. ...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Planning Analytics:-Cognos Analytics as a Data Source

We have highlighted that In Previous version of PA and PAW we had option to select Cognos Analytics as data source which gives us option to integrate with SAP and cloud databases such as Snowflake. Currently this feature is only enabled in Perform...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration