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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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Profile and QA a dataset using RDS composite keys

Most of our RDS have composite keys to create unique codes for different countries and systems. Having an option to use a subset/ filter/where clause using the composite keys of an RDS to profile or quality assure data would be useful. Sample cust...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Custom Authentication should be able to be debuged.

Currently if you try to debug a Custom Authentication Provider it is slow and unable. This is related to the Websphere Liberty addion. Some one in dev needs to look to see how to set this up so when trying to debug is not completly unusable. Also ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

SDK Update.

The SDK that ships with Cognos is out of date. An example of this is the cookie UP. This cookie can out in Cognos 11 but it not in the SDK. This is a big problem since the cookie is required to open up the Job screen in 11.2.4 FP 3.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Windows Services should stop all the Cognos Services.

When restarting the Cognos Service all Cognos components are not shutdown. Windows Services should be the control for the environment. This is import for a redistributed since we have to deal with the issues cause by having part of the server stil...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Enhance Category Selection for Metadata Enrichment by adding an option to choose between using only Primary categories or including Secondary categories.

This enhancement would provide users with the flexibility to select whether to include only Primary categories or to expand their selection to include Secondary categories when identifying Data Classes or Business Terms for analysis. By offering t...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection.

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection. Currently, there is no direct way to manage data assets by filtering them through a specific connection. Adding this feature would provide users with more...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add the ability to filter by Status in the Metadata Import process.

This enhancement would enable users to apply filters based on the status of metadata items during the import process. By incorporating a Status filter, users can efficiently manage their metadata by quickly identifying items relevant to their curr...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Add a feature to assign data classes based on the assigned business term, with the option to choose the behavior of data class assignment.

This enhancement would involve reconfiguring the data class assignment service to operate based on the business term assigned to each asset. Users should have the flexibility to select how data classes are assigned: either following the default be...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhance the MDI scope configuration to retain previously selected tables when updating the scope.

Currently, when users configure the MDI scope and select specific tables, they must reselect all tables each time they update the scope. This process can be tedious and time-consuming, especially for users working with large datasets. By implement...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Enable the ability to create custom asset objects directly through the user interface.

Currently, users can only create custom asset objects using the REST API, which may be challenging for those who are not familiar with API interactions. By adding support for creating custom asset types directly through the user interface, users w...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists