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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
about 1 hour ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

A integrated solution for connecting external databases.

Today if you need a external database connection for Planning Analytics on CP4D, you need to provision a Windows server to run the ODBC connector to act as an intermediary between your ODBC data and Planning Analytics. Planning Analytics will poin...
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
about 9 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

bulk find and replace in PAW

Currently in PAW you have a feature to search a keyword in a rule/ti. You can then go to the ti/rule and use the functionality to replace it with some other keyword. It would be nice to have this functionality available in the left pane where you ...
about 24 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Display and Manage Persistent Volume (PV/NFS) Information in PAW Administration

For IBM Planning Analytics Cartridge on Cloud Pak for Data , TM1 data is stored on Persistent Volumes backed by NFS, NAS, or CSI storage. However, There is no visibility in PAW about where the data directory is mounted. The admins must run oc comm...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned.

paw search code functionality to be extended to PAfE

Currently in PAW, we can search for a specific keyword within TIs and Rules. While this is a welcome move, it would be great to extend that functionality for PAfE reports being published. This will ensure we can proactively investigate and perform...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Integration with Service Now

Integrate with Service now for CPD alerts and warnings so that automatically service now incident get created.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow regular users to view account and company hierarchies

Some of our users in central group accounting want to have the possibility to view the hierarchies in Cognos Controller (Account and Company) Preferably by being able to view it in the menus "Maintain - Account Structure - Define" and "Maintain - ...
1 day ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Thread alerts - Planning Analytics as a Service - Administration

Hello, Right now in Planning Analytics as a Service, when configuring alerts in the "Alerts" tab of Administration / Databases from Planning Analytics Workspace, we have the following alerts : Ressources consumption alerts Database status alerts H...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted