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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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Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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


Created by Guest
Created on Jan 26, 2022

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering.


As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are able to take advantage of any of the IBM solutions (Cognos Analytics on Demand, Cloud Pak for Data) with a direct connection to SAP HANA.



Available for CP4D 4.0 (i.e. on-prem): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=catalogs-sap-hana-connection


Note: The connection to SAP HANA already work for Planning Analytics, but no other solutions. We would be happy to use Secure Gateway to access SAP HANA with the JDBC driver. Please install it for SaaS.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)