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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:


Search existing ideas

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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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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

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
over 2 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Need additional APIs to fetch resources by tag id/name

IBM OpenPages Tagging capability allow users to associate one more tags to records. This helps business users to categorize records based on their functionality and relevance to specific capability (e.g. RCSA). For example: - A control has the tag...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Conditionally Rendered Images on Dashboard

The ability to have conditionally rendered images would add tremendous value to dashboards with KPIs, to give a scorecard look and feel. E.G. Red light appears based on target not being met, Green light appears based on target being exceeded. I re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To notify user before timeout

Right now when timeout is happening, TM1Web would just become irresponsive, or a new action would then cause a timeout error, however, unlike other product or website, it prompts to user and ask if the user want to continue working or not.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration