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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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IGC Collection Export & Import Option in 11.7

Currently we have no feature to do Export / Import Collection Assets from IGC - Governance(11.5) from one environment to another. Due to this, we used to create collection assets while Synchronizing Dev with PROD environment. As this is a manual p...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

Bulk import of lineage filters (.WBF files)

"Import a lineage filter" function under Lineage Management in the admin console does not allow the selection of more than one WBF file for upload. In scenarios where a multitude of filters need to be imported, the current functionality allows for...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Information Analyzer Virtual Tables - Parameters

Problem: Currently within the Virtual Tables and SQL Virtual Tables there is no way to pass a Parameter externally within a Filter Condition. As an example if I am using a date filter in a VT or SQL VT that extracts the data for a given day or giv...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 3 Not under consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Interface for registration of Technical Assets

Provide an interface for the registration of technical assets for new assets that are created, as well as the workflow construction for this interface.
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

add/remove collaborators in Transformation Project

Transformation projects has the following problem, it is not possible to restrict access to different projects by users, all users with data enginering role can access all projects. The requested improvement lies in being able to add and remove co...
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

Advanced/relative date filter

Add on a dashboard and report prompt the ability to filter for a date or date range using the following: today, yesterday, this week/month/year, last x days/week/month/year, fiscal filtering. This type of control or functionality is a staple of ma...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration