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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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TFUI Allow Bar Chart Order to be based on dropdown display order

When adding a bar chart, there is no option to select the sort order of the bars. It automatically orders the bars from longest to shortest. Clients have requested to allow sorting of the bars to be fixed order based on the dropdown order. For exa...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Better pagination in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window. When searching for an asset within a catalog, change from 'show more' to a multi select e.g. 20, 50, 100 rows (similar to business glossary.) **
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

DataStage (IIS) kafka connector to connect to RBAC enabled Kafka cluster

BOA has a huge Kafka cluster and as per GIS ( Global Information Security), all new platform need to have RBAC enabled and this being the case, we would want to connect DataStage (IIS) using Kafka connector to connect to the Kafka cluster ( with R...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide a new project setting that prevents project editors from adding/modifying project files (API/UI/Runtimes)

The request is to give the ability for admins to create a project with flag in which editors are not allowed to create files in the project, all runtimes (not just notebooks) will mount the project data folder as read-only (instead of read-write)....
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Exporting Lineage

We need that the exported file will contain resource key and will contain column lineage and in the same structure of the imported csv file. All this are not supported in current export lineage csv file.After changing the table structure we expect...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review