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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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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,

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  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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Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set t...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
2 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
2 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

frozen one-column horizontal scrolling display

Hello, I'd like to know if it's possible to freeze a column (in this case 2024_w) so that when you scroll to the right, you keep the column displayed.
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Virtual Table Name should be longer than 50 characters.

When creating Virtual tables we decided as standard to maintain the default Target Virtual Table Name that is build as follow: ConncectionName_Schema_Tablename In some cases this turns out to be longer than 50 chars. and when trying to create it s...
7 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add all leaves to advance synchronization options

Add all leaves as an option for when you have a hierarchy that consists of more level and you still want it to show all leaves
11 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Start IDE with fraction of CPU request or with no cpu request

Today most IDE in WatsonStudio need to be started with 1 CPU. The customer would like the ability to start IDE with franctions of cpu and not a full cpu or even if possible with no cpu request Customer uses Jupyter, Spark and rStudio IDE. Today us...
3 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Cloud pak for Data Watson Studio generating IDE Spark, jupyter, rstudio creates env variables that can affect performance

Customer ran into an issue where all pods in the CPD namespace were slow. A cron job is running in CP4D was suppose to kill idle spark IDE. But there were some pods that were not cleaned. -> https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WAI-I-102 With the help o...
3 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Multi-engine management on watsonx.data SaaS

For resiliency and tenancy purposes, there is a need to deploy multiple engines (and types) to a single watsonx.data instance. This is something that can be configured and deployed on CP4D, however the SaaS version of watsonx.data doesn't seem to ...
3 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Have the ability of changing resource definition credentials programmatically instead of through the Deployment Manager Client

This would allow admins to change the spss resource definition passwords using automation, rotating them more frequently and making the accounts used in the application more secure.
3 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted