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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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Add Option to Only Show Selected Databases in the Database Tree

As a developer working daily with IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), I often deal with a large number of database instances — over 50 in our enterprise environment. However, for my daily tasks, I only need access to two specific instances. Cu...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need to see virtualized objects in relationship explorer for business term or catalog

We create virtualized tables and develop views based on business requirements. When a virtualized asset is added to the related content of a business term through the enrichment process and published to the catalog, we want to ensure that these vi...
25 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Request support for Python version 3.10 and beyond for StreamSets SDK for StreamSets Self-Managed ( Legacy ) Controlhub

The current SDK supports only Python 3.9, which is scheduled to reach end-of-life on October 17, 2025. Continuing to use software beyond its EOL poses security, compliance, and operational risks, as it no longer receives updates or patches—includi...
25 days ago in StreamSets 0 Planned for future release

Format Manager and consolidated cells

The format manager has a lot of great features that make applying styles to a cube viewer easier. However, a basic need is the ability to change the colour of a cell if the cell is consolidated, this currently is quite difficult to apply and the r...
25 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add log files to a workbench or open in a new window

When viewing a process error log in a workbench, it opens as a pop out and you can't interact with the workbench. Would be nice to have that pop out as a new window or add a tab to the workbench so the log can be interrogated at the same time as t...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Manta SAP HANA scanner to support calculation view

Why it is useful? SAP HANA at Truist uses calculation view intensively. There are a few key tables that get loaded via stored procedures and those stored procedures loads data from several calculation views and/or nested calculation view. Without ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Planned for future release

Ability to Make Custom Attributes Mandatory

We would like the option to mark certain Custom Attributes as mandatory when creating or editing assets. This would help enforce data governance policies and ensure consistency in metadata population.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Workflow requestor does not see the next step approver/publisher user or group

Due to lack of transparency requestor cannot know how to escalate or monitor the progress of the request. Notifications do not show that information.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release