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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

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...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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
507 VOTE

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

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

Read Parquet Schema from Origin that can be used in the Pipeline

When a Parquet file saved from a previous pipeline where the schema was inferred from the record, the parquetSchema field does not appear to be populated correctly. It appears to be an Avro schema and in the destination stage when the Parquet Sche...
6 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Utilize SSL certificates in Platform Connections

External content stores are registered as Connections in CPD platform with the credentials and SSL certificates. However, the certificates are not automatically imported/copied when configuring an instance of Cognos. It requires an additional step...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Implicit TS/IX Objects - Need DDL capability, ALT on IX

Need the ability to enter DDL command and get the DDL. Also ALT command needs to work on implicit IX.
6 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Messages improvements

From DVM Studio when selecting a BIGSQL table that the user is not authorized to, we get back a misleding Column metadata error. We would like to have a better handling of this situation.
7 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

IKC administrator role need to get super privileges' to control all the components

Need a super admin privileges' for the CP4D platform admin users to control all the components of the IKC - Glossary, Catalog, Projects, Connections Due to missing proper access, now facing the challenge when business report some issue with their ...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted