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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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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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Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
4 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Integrate with Hashicorp External Vault with alternate method (not token based) such as VaultStaticSecret

We have been able to successfully configure Cloud Pak for Data to integrate with HashiCorp External Vault to retrieve content of secrets. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=vaults-connecting-external#taskadd-vaults__steps__...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

Additional informaton at mouseover for elements in rows and columns

I would like to have the possibility to provide more information about the elements that are displayed in rows and columns. The topic arose from a user request. The users would like to receive an extended description of a key figure via mouseover....
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
15 days ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Keep and maintain at least 2 or 3 Python and R runtime versions in each release of CP4D

Multiple companies and industries work with CP4D for data science models. These models use multiple versions of Python or R runtimes and different open-source libraries that are compatible with the runtime version used to build the model. Clients ...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Not under consideration

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / DMCtop 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...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
14 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review