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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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Ability to add Custom Dashboards created using Custom Tools in the left hand side “Dashboards” Menu and “Custom Tools” text displayed on Custom Tools be configured along with the Menu name “Custom Tools”

Hi Team, We are not able to add Custom Dashboards created using Custom Tools in the left hand side “Dashboards” Menu so that OOTB dashboards and custom dashboards can be grouped together. This will be easier for end users like Suppliers to navigat...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Excel based import in workflow doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory, editable, viewable at step level.

Workflow excel based import doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory/required at step level, what are editable for user and what are viewable. It would be good if there can be a color coding for the user to know upfront at export that what ...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Attribute Properties Hidden not available for Lookup Specs

We had an use case to keep the primary key to be sequenced provided the legacy data should be loaded to the table with its own sequence and then later the primary keys have to be autogenerated. This was achieved by maintaining an internal sequence...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

Decoupling the enable bulk import option in workflow step with Allow Import into Step checkbox.

As per the current functionality, bulk import option in the workflow step is enabled only when we select Allow Import into Step checkbox which is available at workflow step level. When this particular checkbox is selected it is enabling '+' button...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Manage catalog/hierarchy views

"Hierarchy and Catalog views can be customized to personalize how item attributes are presented to a user" (Infocenter) Currently, in Single-edit or multi-edit screen, users can see all views configured/available. It is not a problem from Security...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Hide the http ports from backend of the IBM Product Master Operator

In the current IPM Operator, the deployed IPM application connects to URL with HTTPS however the backend connection happens with HTTP port. The client wants to prevent any exposed open http port. They would like to have frontend and backend to con...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Allow configurable setting for com.ibm.ml.util.HTTPUtil connection.setConnectTimeout() and connection.setReadTimeout()

Machine Learning attribute classification fails intermittently due to read timeout. The (java) workflow engine is waiting on the machine learning (python) process to complete. For large datasets, there’s no way to speed it up. The machine learning...
almost 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications in Business UI.

Hi Team, The support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications which has been removed from Business UI now. It will be good if we keep supporting that option as we see multiple use cases where need to have lookup referencing...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration