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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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Planning Analytics:-Cognos Analytics as a Data Source

We have highlighted that In Previous version of PA and PAW we had option to select Cognos Analytics as data source which gives us option to integrate with SAP and cloud databases such as Snowflake. Currently this feature is only enabled in Perform...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 7 Future consideration

Implement ability to force terminate PAfE executions on TM1 Server

In certain situations, we have observed that PAfE executions cannot be cancelled through TM1Top or through the CancelOperation method within REST API. These threads subsequently block dimension updates (READ locks prevent all other WRITE actions, ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Db2 native and RACF security consistency requirement

This is especially important for shops like ours where for years DB2 native security and migrate to RACF security to be complaint with security audit and policies, and also new mainframe applications standards. There is multiple areas where curren...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add Official Support for Red Panda / Kafka for CDC Replication

Please review the Red Panda distribution for Kafka for approval. We have been assured that Red Panda follows the Apache Kafka protocol used by CDC Replication. We would like to have Red Panda added to the supported distributions for Kafka. Thank you.
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted
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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted