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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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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...
4 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 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...
3 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...
17 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...
25 days ago in Planning Analytics 6 Submitted

Ability to remove certain buttons from top ribbon in pawbook

We have noticed that the ability to remove certain buttons from top ribbon is only available for books having cube views but not with books having websheet. This keeps us away from providing uniform capability for end users. We have combination of...
about 4 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support for Asynchronous Calls to Embedding Models

Current embedding model APIs operate synchronously, which can lead to long wait times and inefficiencies, especially when processing large volumes of data or complex inputs. This RFE proposes adding support for asynchronous (async) API calls to em...
about 8 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Online backup and restore to a different cluster using OADP and ODF

A full volume backup (not just snapshots) using OADP and ODF is only possible using an offline backup. The current offline backup solution results in several hours of downtime for our watsonx cluster. As platform usage continues to grow, this down...
about 9 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

GPU support for embedding models in watsonx.ai SW

Currently, embedding models are deployed using CPU resources, which leads to slower processing times and increased latency when handling large-scale data. This RFE proposes the implementation of GPU support for embedding model deployments. The enh...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
about 9 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Submitted