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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.

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Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Provide logging/metrics for service level usage of watsonx.ai SaaS

Question from a partner about service level usage logging for watsonx.ai SaaS. Is there a good option to see detailed usage? e.g. number of API endpoint requests over time, histogram of input tokens per request, or grouped by token size, to analyz...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add TAQ comparison to Compressed Name Controls

Due to our inability to control the completeness of the names provided by external financial institutions, it is likely that name tampering—whether intentional or unintentional—by these institutions may prevent us from accurately assessing the lis...
about 2 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
6 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Known Issues displayed in corresponding windows of the product

Imagine there is a known issue running a Watsonx.ai model in certain conditions, for version 4.8.3. On the page where you run the model, you have a link to "known issues for 4.8.3". That way, if the model fails, users can see it is a known issue, ...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Known issues displayed in the corresponding page of the documentation

Users encountering an issue often check the documentation. If what they encounter is a Known Issue, IBM should display that Known issue on that page, because users will typically not search online for possible Known Issues. There should be only 1 ...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Diagnostics should contain operator logs when installation issues are encountered

Diagnostics in the Support section only contain logs for the services involved; not for the operators.
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Link to open a ticket should contain information about the page where it is open from.

When a user reports an issue to IBM, it takes some time to figure out which page is active when the issue is encountered.The 'Open a ticket' link is a static URL. It could be improved with information relevant to the active window the user is on. ...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted