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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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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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To add the viewer permissions for reporting functionality

Users are requesting only VIEW access for reporting page: ( https://datacatalog.verizon.com/catalog/manage/reports ) Currently they are unable to view this page( screenshot attached) As Sanjit suggested we went through https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/...
about 13 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 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 22 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 22 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....
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics version with 2-3 years maintenance, independently from other software versions deployed on same cluster

*** 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 ) *** Any dependency to the version of another software deployed as well on the same Software Hub cluste...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Different Cognos versions within one CP4D cluster

*** 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 ) *** Different Cognos versions within one cluster must be possible.Helmcharts are required on-site for ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

CJAP / Authentication

*** 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) *** Groups and roles are created dynamically over CJAP from the on-site BI database. These groups and ro...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Replacing the internal registry in CPDS with an enterprise-grade registry could reduce or eliminate issues and constraints during upgrades and daily operation.

The current built-in registry in CPDS has size and performance limitations which cause extra steps and troubleshooting when images are not saved properly during mirroring. CPD documentation suggests the included registry is not enterprise grade, a...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review