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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow replication from Kafka as a source

It would be good to support replications from Kafka as a source to other targets. This idea might sound strange if this were the only replication happening, but this could be part of a "cascading" replication, e.g. if data is replicated from Db2 t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

API to automate workspace user management in PA SaaS (could be useful on-prem too)

With large systems containing many users it would save a lot of time if there was an official API that can be used to automate the addition invited users into PA Workspace (SaaS) as well as access levels rather than having to do it manually. This ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

JSON and JSONB maximum size on NPS

Message systems like Kafka are often used as an enterprise nervous system for data. A datawarehouse like Netezza Performance Server needs to be able to consume this data for analysis and reporting. Most organizations prefer the loading of their da...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Setting CNDS to work in AWS Cloud based RDS

Our CADS 8.3 system has been installed in AWS Cloud. It has worked well for a couple of years. Recently the RDS instance that contains the CADS repository was set to enable SSL and CADS stopped working. IBM support Ticket TS014997706 was establish...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Custom Nodes with native Python (not PySpark)

In Modeler 18.5, there are Extension nodes which run native Python scripting (Pandas-based), but not Custom Nodes. In previous versions, the Extension nodes allows PySpark scripting AND Custom Nodes with PySpark. It would be nice to have the abili...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Have the Governance Artifacts editor pages (Terms/Categories) be customizable (delete/hide fields not filled/needed)

Although the Glossary and Category pages serve many purposes for the customers governance endevour oftentimes there is "too much". Many fields will never get touched/used by a customer and it would be nice if one could "get rid" of them (hidding? ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

watsonx.ai to allow the clients to retrain or build their foundational models on IBM HPC (VELA)

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, and has raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. They want to build and retrain the foundational models in watsonx.ai hosted on IBM HPC compu...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Masking function with GRANT per column

Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

DMC Reports vs DSM Reports in Email

1) DSM we are getting an email with the database report attached through email , which was easy for us to SAVE / download directly without logging into DSM console . 2) DMC we are getting an email with the link to DMC console where we need to clic...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration