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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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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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Adding support for three-level namespace structure in WQ

We aim to implement a three-level namespace structure, i.e. <Catalog or Database Name>.<Schema Name>.<Table Name>. This structure is pivotal as the majority of our virtualized tables sourced from Databricks Unity Catalog which us...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

We should expand the maximum size of a LOB object per table or table partition

Enhance Maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition (in terabytes) 4 -> 8,16,32,64,128
9 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Allow popup text to display on hover

In Planning Analytics Workspace, when creating a book a user may add on image with and define pop up text that may appear when the user clicks on the image. Could we have a option to allow us to set the pop up text to appear on hover, so when hove...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Minimum resources should be reserved for opening notebook

Minimum resources should be reserved for opening notebook - while doing the development work (in WS - Spark or python runtime). Option to select the spark/python runtime after clicking on execute button in WS along with higher resource requirement.
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add NRS functionality into cyclops/influxdb to get a better understanding of history, current and future operations

Actually all history gets lost (with some exceptions), current state is hard to verify, future operations in terms of setting up additional databases , behaviour of the future system isn't possible. All this must be addressed for a healthy day2 en...
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Need the ability to copy collection configuration and data from one environment to another

The backup and restore script in Watson Discovery allows you to copy all collection configuration and data from one environment to another. However, it is not possible to copy date for a specific collection. This feature is useful when collections...
4 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Need a crawler in Watson Discovery to crawl documents from Confluence

Confluence is a popular repository that many companies use. Currently there is no option to crawl Confluence documents.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

The Watson Discovery Web crawler should be able to crawl sites protected by ForgeRock Authentication SSO.

Currently the web crawler is not able to crawl sites protected by complicated protocol like SAML or OAuth, hence ForgeRock SSO Authentication does not work.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted