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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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Image description in Text Extraction

The Text Extraction feature can read the content of an image using OCR. However, sometimes the text within the image is not enough to provide context. It would be very interesting if the model could describe what is inside the image. In addition t...
1 day ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

More than one image on chat API

Multimodal Chat API should accept multiple images (base64) not single one. We have several use cases on Banco do Brasil that needs multiple images processing in the same chat but the IBM API limits it to just one due to that they are starting to u...
3 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Adding Financial function Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to TM1 Rules

Adding an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) feature to IBM Planning Analytics TM1 Rules will significantly enhance its value for financial analysis and decision-making. IRR is a crucial metric for evaluating the profitability of investments and projec...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 6 Submitted

A new role that allows users to create definitions but not execute them (not allow quality and monitor quality rule assets)

This new feature will allow for more granular user control, allowing administrators to create different user groups based on this role.
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
about 18 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

MDI Lineage Job fails without proper Error message in logs

While Running the MDI lineage process, the job fails without providing a clear or detailed error message in the logs. it simply shows a status of failed with no context or explanation. We need the job logs to help with troubleshooting and root cau...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Submitted

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted