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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...
2 days 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...
16 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

Capability to add "embedded hyperlinks" to text attributes.

We have some custom text attributes where we are storing hyperlinks to some external content. We offer for example attributes for links to business information model, and for the technical assets stored in another software. It would make things ne...
about 10 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Options to make the Custom environment template to be available in all projects/Deployment spaces

Whenever there are some vulnerabilities reported against the packages in We have been creating custom images and requesting users to create new custom environment with the new s/w config pointing to the new image. Users are feeling it hard to crea...
about 12 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Studio (Enter against watsonx.ai) 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...
1 day 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...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted