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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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Enable ability to enforce duplicate prevention of data assets between catalogs.

There is currently no way to enforce the prevention of duplicate assets between catalogs.
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Method to disable 'Select Server' prompt (using classic client)

Since Controller 11.0.1 FP2 IF2, the classic client now gives an extra 'Select Server' prompt/choice as soon as a user launches the client. The 'select server' selection screen appears *before* the 'Select Database' section (where the user chooses...
24 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
24 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Needs more information

Data Management Console: Using for monitoring the current Event Monitor Data, which are configured (DB2STATISTICS, DB2ACTIVITIES, DB2THRESHOLDS)

Using for monitoring the current Event Monitor Data, which are configured (DB2STATISTICS, DB2ACTIVITIES, DB2THRESHOLDS)
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Autosave feature in Cognos Controller

We would like to request the addition of an Autosave feature in Cognos Controller, particularly when using the Data Entry function (integrated with the Controller Excel link) for entering reported company values. Currently, users experience data l...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Data Management Console: Allow the configuration of users by commands

Currently the configuration of users is via LDAP or manual via GUI. This idea is about using commands to configure users (adding / deleting user + role ).
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Export MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation

We request to support export of MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation.
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Data Management Console: Ability to upload own Driver / Wrapper and also specify the class of the driver during the definition of connection to a Db2 database

When a connection to a Db2 database is defined in the Data Management Console, the today it’s predefined driver with server, port, database and enabling of SSL. The customer would prefer to have their own authentication to have the ability to uplo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration