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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.

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Setting CNDS to work in AWS Cloud based RDS

Our CADS 8.3 system has been installed in AWS Cloud. It has worked well for a couple of years. Recently the RDS instance that contains the CADS repository was set to enable SSL and CADS stopped working. IBM support Ticket TS014997706 was establish...
about 1 month ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Under review

Custom Nodes with native Python (not PySpark)

In Modeler 18.5, there are Extension nodes which run native Python scripting (Pandas-based), but not Custom Nodes. In previous versions, the Extension nodes allows PySpark scripting AND Custom Nodes with PySpark. It would be nice to have the abili...
about 1 month ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review

Have the Governance Artifacts editor pages (Terms/Categories) be customizable (delete/hide fields not filled/needed)

Although the Glossary and Category pages serve many purposes for the customers governance endevour oftentimes there is "too much". Many fields will never get touched/used by a customer and it would be nice if one could "get rid" of them (hidding? ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

failed logins in auditlog

In the audit logs (WAS_install_path/profiles/InfoSphere/logs) there is no information on failed logins. This information is only logged in the WAS SystemOut.log as Authentication failed.It would be important to have this audit-critical information...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to add multiple users as asset owners

A large Federal customer requests the ability to add multiple users as Asset Owners
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to set default Project quota

CPD admins can set Project quotas to enforce resource constraints on Projects. It is only possible to set the quota after the project is created, which allows room for risk that a user/group can consume too many resources before an Admin has the o...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Audit History Dashboard drill-down to History details

When changes are made on the item, changes by attribute with old value and new value are available on single idem edit in tab Audit history in table History details. When looking at the Audit History Dashboard, there are columns for e.g. added and...
about 1 month ago in Product Master 0 Under review