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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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Data Management Console: Allow the configuration of users by commands

Currently the configuration of users is via LDAP or manual via GUI. This idea is about using commands to configure users (adding / deleting user + role ).
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Export MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation

We request to support export of MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation.
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Data Management Console: Ability to upload own Driver / Wrapper and also specify the class of the driver during the definition of connection to a Db2 database

When a connection to a Db2 database is defined in the Data Management Console, the today it’s predefined driver with server, port, database and enabling of SSL. The customer would prefer to have their own authentication to have the ability to uplo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Management Console: Configure the Web Access with SSO or OAUTH2

Security policies of customers require SSO or OAUTH2 support instead of just user/password for authentication at Data Management Console (DMC).
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Submitted

PAW - View a small text base file in Drive Explorer

This used to be easy on the rich-layer, but with PAW and Drive Explorer - can we have a viewer for small text based files that you can add to favourites like txt/html/ps1/cfg ? It can also be a widget for a paw book like a frame that points to a f...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Asymmetrical Views on Drill Through

Drill through only support traditional views. Can the functionality be expanded to include MDX views in the ReturnViewHandle?
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Date and User selector type Question in Questionnaire

It would be better to have the Date and User single and multi-select as question type in Questionnaire
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review