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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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Review code comments, when analyzing orphaned code.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...

Ability to setup Maintenance Mode to prevent users from login and executing new job's.

Hi Team, As Admin team has the responsibility of maintaining CPD environment for datastage, we wanted check if we can enable a capability to add a Maintenance Mode to prevent users from logging and initiate any of the new job's. We need this capab...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Minor edits should not trigger a workflow

Any workflow adds work. Not all modifications are of equal importance, some the user should be able to do alone. It would be good to be able to define attributes which can be considered of minor importance and those would be just auto-published. O...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
3 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
3 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Enhance the "Schema filter" field functionality for IBM Cloud Database for MongoDB.

It would be beneficial if this field could display a list of available schemas, as currently, a connection cannot be created without populating the "Schema filter" field. Often, users may not know the exact schema name in advance, so it would be i...
3 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Have an Auditor role in watsonx.ai

As an Auditor, I need to be able to see all the AI models that exist in the organization so I can be sure we know all of them and can audit them for any risks and account for their existance. The priority for me would be to support this first in I...
6 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted