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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

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


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Default settings for PAW environment

Currently if the client has custom settings, these colours/fonts/sizes needs to be applied to each widget (taking time and a lot of maintenance). There is also a risk that if users create ad-hoc dashboards, that they use different settings than th...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Date Format for Scheduling Chores

Currently the scheduling of chores can only be configured in the US date format of MM/DD/YYYY. Would it be possible to also configure the PAW server to use another date format of DD/MM/YYYY?
2 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Adjust order of objects starting with numbers

Is it possible to change the order of objects starting with numbers. Currently objects are being displayed in an ordering that works great if 0 to 9 is used. The moment 10 is used, the object display below 1 and not below 9 (which would be the log...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
34 minutes ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Easy way to update oracle user password after password rotation

Currently updating password and saving the configuration CDC takes a lot of time as there are lot of validation doen backend even though only password is changed.Understand any change in the tool will trigger entire validation and very much depend...
about 1 hour ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Ability to Specify Target Fields for Natural Language Query (NLQ) in Watson Discovery

Currently, when using NLQ (Natural Language Query), all fields in a document are included as the search target. However, there are cases where certain fields should not be subject to natural language queries (e.g., fields like URIs that indicate t...
about 2 hours ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules, a better way to visualize a large amount of rules and what they affect
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Folder Structure in DMC for WQ

LMCO requests changes/enhancements to the folder structure present in DMC/WQ UI. Currently, the folder structure is fairly rigid and maps only to the available schemas. This can be unwieldy when connecting to the database via JDBC. LMCO requests a...
about 3 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Customizing Cognos files / Customized PODs

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** In Cognos Analytics on-prem customization of files in the Cognos Analytics install directory, e.g....
about 10 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted