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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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Authorization assignment to user-roles on PAW book tabs

In PAW there is a specific assignment of right for PAW books. For our use case it would be beneficial to also be able to assign tabs inside a book to different user roles thus showing and hiding tabs depending on the user rights. This would enable...
about 16 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable SQL optimization, also known as SQL pushback, for Cloudera connector

Enlarge the list of data sources that benefit from this performance improvement by adding another connector. All customers worldwide using Modeler on CP4D and Cloudera will benefit from this improvement.
4 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
5 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...

Include Custom Runtime Environments in Deployment Space Export/Import

When users migrate Deployment Spaces between IBM Cloud Pak for Data environments (e.g., for disaster recovery or CI/CD purposes), custom runtime environments used by assets are not included in the export/import process. This limitation causes impo...
12 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
11 days ago in watsonx.data 1 Submitted

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Parity of watsons.xdata with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsons.xdata service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Cur...
9 minutes ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Allow for clear text NEWAUTHID in SYSIBM.USERNAMES

We use SYSPROC.DSNLEUSR to encrypt usernames and passwords that are stored in the DSNLEUSR table, The procedure encrypts both NEWAUTHID and PASSWORD. It becomes difficult to manage the SYSIBM.USERNAMES table as we cannot see the NEWAUTHID in clear...
about 8 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted