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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

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  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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PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add object Tags to be reportable in Cognos

Tags are a great function within OpenPages. As a 'flag' that can be searched on this also needs to be added to the reporting framework so it can be utilised by Cognos. This will replicate the same behaviour when exporting objects with multiple ...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Runtime resource files - support for encryption and decryption at runtime within the pipeline using keys from azure key vault

Humana is successful with using exec function in credential store by fetching encryption keys from Azure key vault. They are looking for similar feature/implementation for resource files, specifically encrypting resource files and decrypting them ...
20 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Don't deleted RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Country...
20 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

PAfE installation guide on Azure Virtual Desktop

It is a very common practice for organization to deploy application via VDI approach such as AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop). This is a very common practice and currently my organization is informed by IBM Support that this has not been officially sup...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
20 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Integrate with Hashicorp External Vault with alternate method (not token based) such as VaultStaticSecret

We have been able to successfully configure Cloud Pak for Data to integrate with HashiCorp External Vault to retrieve content of secrets. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=vaults-connecting-external#taskadd-vaults__steps__...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

[GOV] ICP4D v.4.8.5 PROD Env (MDI) - Need option to skip asset/column description while publishing the project assets to catalog.

MDI Scan: Column description overwrites description in Catalog. Issue replication: Table and column description created through hydration job is being replaced after MDI Scan and publish in WKC "GCP for marketplace catalog". Expectation: Stop over...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review