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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Manage APIs as assets in the catalog

The customer is managing its own proprietary repository of apis to various systems and databases. The content of the repository is a set of YAML files and JSON files. Those files contain metadata (I will upload to the case a sample yaml file) . Th...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

IA GUI does not display decimal trailing 0s

IA GUI does not display decimal .00; if decimal .50, it displays only .5, but if decimal .15, it normally displays. when they check in the Database, they have a decimal .00, and then check on the thin client it has a decimal .0000000000 Can we mod...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Needs more information

Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Refinement of cards customization

We would like to manage Configurations and settings Home page cards based persona instead of permissions. Below is list Home Page Cards Alerts All governance artifacts Categories Deployment spaces Identity and user access My in...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data 2 Needs more information

REST API: Provide more detail about the usage/links to File-Based and External data sources.

Here are the API calls I make: To find out about external data sources (Postgres etc.) I use the url: <url>/api/v1/datasources and <url>/api/v1/datasources/<id>/connections To find out which files are imported into the platform I...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Audit Info: Capture failed login user id in Splunk logs.

CPD Epic: ICPD-1672 In it's current state, CP4D audit logs do not capture failed login attempts user id's in logs that are forwarded to Splunk. This puts us in violation of GIS Audit policy non-compliance. Additional info available in IBM Support ...

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

CP4D - Need API for Zen database to collect user and group information

As per the UIOLI process, we need to pull user, group and last accessed timestamp of a user for CP4D. This is inline with case #TS015500667, we are able to see the required information of users and groups in ZEN database. Now, we want to know if t...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists