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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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MSK is looking for a native connector for Databricks on AWS.

We already have for Azure. We should have a native connector for AWS to avoid multi-step load/registration via S3 connector. More customers will be asking beyond MSK.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Customer is using Nexus IQ to scan SW images for potential CVEs before the SW is approved for installation. Customer is asking if IBM can use this tool internally to reduces the risk of sending them images with CVEs.

This is useful to proactively identity CVEs so that we can document and set the expectations with the customer when we deliver the SW to them.
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Effective r15s/r1m/r15m values for job reservations

When using run queue length indices in rusage strings, there should be an option to have the value divided by ncpus. Since in the "total load used for scheduling" the r15s/r1m/r15m are taken from lsload -E and divided by the specific ncpus for tha...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Optimizer related catalog tables to be temporal

I am aware that a few more tables in the Db2 catalog will be made temporal. This idea is to make ALL catalog tables that the optimizer uses to be temporal. This will enable the user community and also Db2 zAI to extract the statistics that were in...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Default sort for fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated' in Drive Explorer

When in Drive Explorer, upon first selecting to sort on fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated', can the first sort be largest to smallest (Size), and latest to oldest (Last Updated) set as the default. For large folders, it can take some time for the so...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

PAW: clickable hyperlink in cell of cube view

In Planning Analytics Workspace, allow clickable hyperlinks in cells of cube views.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Future consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted