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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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Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

A way to see who is logged in to PAW

If you have planned a PAW downtime for maintenance and you want to check if there are still users logged in, you have no way to do so. You can check the threads of a database, but this is not feasible when you have multiple databases. Regarding "c...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

To generate the output file 'Export to Excel' and 'Generate Report' functionalities without the Categories.

This is to check the possibility to implement the changes to exclude the hidden mapped category columns of Items from the output files of 'Export to Excel' and 'Generate Report' functionalities. We are assuming that, fetching all the mapped Catego...
about 2 months ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Provide Value/Description of Lookup ids in excel sheet for Export to Excel functionality

Please check the possibility to implement the changes to include Value/Description of Lookup ids in excel sheet for Export to Excel functionality. As per the current implementation only Lookup id will be exported as part of this functionality. P...
about 2 months ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Include "Drop unmatched fields" option in the Generic jdbc and Database stages using jdbc

Currently we use the property "Drop unmatched fields" in our jobs to run any SQL's in our database stages which has hard coded values, the option is present in generic odbc and in the native database stages which enables us to use the hard coded S...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Turbo Integrator Status

Need to monitor progress of data loads.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Alert Set-up on Peak Utilization of Resources

As We notice the current CP4D environment is hitting thresholds on capacity The Ask is, Is there an Out-of-Box functionality available to notify a user group (via email schedule) on resource utilization ?
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted