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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,

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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Cannot find a way to remove spark applications and history from analytics engine spark (cp4d).

The customer is using Watsonx.data with both Analytics Engine Spark and Native Spark. Over time, a large number of Spark applications and historical records have accumulated since last year. While there is a workaround to remove some records from ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Implement a project search feature that allows users to filter and search for projects based on connection type (e.g., DB2).

Implement a project search feature that allows users to filter and search for projects based on connection type (e.g., DB2). This enhancement would enable users to easily find all projects associated with a specific connection type, improving effi...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhance email notifications for job completions by providing more detailed information and direct links to results.

Currently, users receive email notifications upon the completion of MDE or DQ rule jobs, but these notifications lack essential details and only include a link to the job log. To improve the user experience and facilitate quicker access to results...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Needs more information

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Utilize SSL certificates in Platform Connections

External content stores are registered as Connections in CPD platform with the credentials and SSL certificates. However, the certificates are not automatically imported/copied when configuring an instance of Cognos. It requires an additional step...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

User should be created automatically from connected LDAP group and not after the first login

LDAP connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Needs more information

Powerplay Studio / PowerPlay as a container

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** PowerPlay Studio / PowerPlay as a container required to allow smooth transition from Cognos Analyt...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

TM1 Web - upload PDF files

We have some PDF Documents to be published in TM1 Web (Web Interface used by our users). TM1 Web currently does not support downloading these files, and there is no feature in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) to upload PDF files. I would like o...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration