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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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Challenges Integrating IdG Platform with InfoSphere: Metadata Structure Hurdles information server v11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted

Dependency on dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin Users in Administration Tasks: Security Challenges. information server 11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted

Add row count back to export dialog for views

It is useful to know how many rows are being exported (particularly for a large view) before you select to export it. We have customers upset to have lost this functionality as it existed in the tm1web view export dialog.
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Cell Annotations in PAfE when working with alternative hierarchies

We realized that Cell Annotations functionality in PAfE is not supported when working with alternative hierarchies. At the moment, in Exploration and Quick Report there's a possibility to maintain Annotations using the context menu (available unde...
28 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Allow Alternate Hierarchies to be used with the Predictive Forecast button

The forecast button does not work when the data source view is using an Alternate Hierarchy.
14 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support for DataStage in Git-integrated Projects

As of 4.8, DataStage is not supported in Default Git Integrated projects. A large Federal Customer requests the ability to leverage DataStage in Git-integrated projects. This is critical for the customer to adopt a consistent CI/CD framework acros...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted