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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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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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Remove the field Schema in data virtualization

Hi, According to an answer that we receive, the schemas name is only a suggestion and can be anything you would like when creating the Schema. By default, the Schemas are not owned by anyone, as a result, the other users can see all schema names b...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

It should be chooseable OUTER of INNER JOIN in DV.

In DataVirtualization, we can create join view. But we can create only inner join view by using GUI. We know we can create outer join view by using SQL editor. But it is not acceptable from our customer.
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

Data Virtualization : Ability to edit joined tables query and synchronize linked catalog and projects asset

We use the data virtualization component of CP4D to connect to external datasources and link them to internal datasources. We virtualize these data and join different virtualized tables (internal + external) to each other. Then we publish the virt...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

DataStage Kafka Connector should support schema compatibility set to FULL

Kafka Connector job failed with schema compatibility mode set to FULL. We got error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409". Currently user has to change the Kafka schema compatibility mode to NONE from Po...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow custom certificates for DB2 exposed by Data Virtualization

Hello, We are trying to connect via PowerBI to the db2 exposed by dv but the connection fails because of the certificates. These certificates are not complete and do not contain any host information. PowerBI cannot use them. The connection without...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Prevent duplicate Virtual Table Names from being created

We have had numerous cases where our users are creating virtual tables with the exact same name as previously created ones causing confusion and data rule failure. The source no longer exists but now we have to go delete old ones. Is there a way t...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Single Authentication & Authorization model

Customers: Lockheed Martin, federal clients, Cognos clients IAM - https://bigblue.aha.io/features/ICPD-1031 We will use this wpic to track only the SSO work. SSO should extend across services in the platform: Contained within common connectivit...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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over 3 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

User experience in virtualized results

We are unable to join more than 2 views at a time in DV UI. If we have 4 views that need to be joined, we have to first join 1 and 2 together as view A, then 3 and 4 together as view B, then we can join those newly joined A and B views together. W...
about 4 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review