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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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 System

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Cohort topic name is not fully controlled by administrator

When configuring synchronization with external repositories, administrators are not able to provide custom cohort topic name while setting up the cohort configuration for glossary service and cohort configuration for catalog. As explained in the o...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration

Added a function for general users to check the running job log

I want to check the intermediate process of a long-running job made in python or R. During execution, the job log only shows the message "Job run is still in progress". In order to check whether a job with a long running time is running normally, ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Remove the limitation in ISTOOL for Extension Mapping Document import for CP4D

We opened a ticket for the error (file.csv exceeds 5120KB, skipping it...) we were getting when we tried to import extension mapping document using istool in IIS 1.7.1 (see ticket # TS012233188). IBM tech told us that this is a limitation for ISTO...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

mgt1 monitored only on active node

The system doesn't monitor for problems with interface mgt1 on e1n2 and e1n3 when e1n1 is the active one. This needs to change as those are also important links and system should not failover to a node with broken mgt1 connection as that is the on...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Lack of alerts for mgt1 issues

In CPDS 1.x the DNS availability is provided only through a single link mgt1 connection. This means that when the link goes down the system is unable to send out e-mail notifications about it as it is unable to resolve hostname of the mail server....
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Data traffic encryption

IBM Netezza Performance Server does not support data traffic encryption when Kerberos authentication is enabled. All data is sent in open text despite kerberos having the functionality to encrypt data transfer. This is a huge security gap that sho...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Send emial form StoredProcedure

having the ability to send emails from a stored procedure, would allow you to be immediately updated on the outcome of important processing
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Make CADataConnector API also available for ICP4DS

Notebook is available in Cognos Analytics 11.1 with CADataConnector API. It can be used for making connection to Cognos Analytics ( packages, reports and report output ) with read and write access.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Planned for future release

JDBC Connector for a Lotus Notes DB/HCL Notes for Datastage on CP4DaaS

JDBC Connector for a Lotus Notes DB/HCL Notes for Datastage on CP4DaaS
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration