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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Expose PAW User Administration Logs for PAoC

Please enable visibility into the action/actor/operation/status for user update activities performed within PAW for Planning Analytics on Cloud environments and enable the 'actor' to be associated with the actual user making updates/changes. Curre...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

Improve user experience when using catalogs

I would like to suggest an improvement in the customization of the presentation of information when the user accesses the Catalogs menu and selects the desired data catalog. It is important that, when viewing data assets, such as schema and table,...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
about 2 months ago in Db2 2 Needs more information

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration