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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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CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
24 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted

Greater filtering for files

We are a SAS shop, and we are finding the connection mechanism cumbersome. We have numerous file folders where SAS scripts are stored but we would like to filter out some of the scripts or sub folders. The current connection type does not allow fo...
24 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted

To export API custom metadata to Collibra since it's not supported yet in Manta

We tried Collibra Export for datasource that uses API for data transformation for which Data Lineage is generated in Manta using Open Manta/DirectLinks. Lineage is available in Manta as "API". We wanted to have the same structure for Collibra expo...
24 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted

Make user ids in CP4D case sensitive

User ids are case sensitive in customer LDAP. Downstream integration of audit report requires matching CP4D ids with downstream reports that can be handled easily wihtout additional case conversion if CP4D allows mixed case and case ssensitive use...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Browser last prompt location

Scenario: When the report have a lot of prompts and user needs to scroll down to see all the prompts. Problem: re-prompt button causes page refresh and web page returns at the beginning of the page.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported in order to create a relationship using an asset, and not a tag.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
10 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review