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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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Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to compare profile runs and identify trends over time

Demonstrate the ability to identify data quality assessment's trends over time
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

OOTB capabilities to support a business-friendly UI for documenting data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc.  

Demonstrate the OOTB features to handle: documentation of data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc. 
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support automated data certification (e.g. gold, silver, bronze)

Automated process for data certification, based on data profiling/quality assessment (Data Certification – based on data profiling/quality result and standards update metadata with proper certification rank)
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Automation rules which dynamically apply a DQ rule based on if then else criteria

Automated way of creating standard rules that can be implemented accross different source systems
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Use Cognos Analytics security groups to limit access to different Cognos Databases

When authenticating cognos controller users against the cognos analytics security (linked to AD) using CAM authentication by default every user in the Cognos User group has access to every data source configured in the Controller configuration. It...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Active Metadata Management, Tool successfully recognizes change in schema metadata, initiates workflow

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to react on certain metadata changes, so that I do not miss actions items required from my end. I want the tool to automate some of my actions via workflows
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Rule Management and Data Validation

Ability to provide Natural Language Processing for stewards to create data quality rules
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Accessibility feature - access more menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard

In Dashboards it is not possible to access the (…) menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard. It should be possible to access the menu with the keyboard in order to assist users who have a disability.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PAW : Cube Views in the dropdown

We are using Architect/Perspective a lot. We would like to see the following abilities on Cube Viewer: Option to revert back to the original views(revert back) Provide an option to Undo the view Provide an option to select different view from the ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release