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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Manta Alation Export - SAML Authentication Support

Current version of Manta does not support SAML authentication for Alation export connection. Currently, we are using a work around in place by using a local account for Alation export authentication. According to our company security policy, this ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Integrate RACF into ADMIN tool

Would be nice to have for 'DB2 under RACF'-sites that we can see on a object which auth RACF Profile rule is used. And see who/groups are on this profile. And give an message if you dont have auth to see this (in RACF organised)
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Offer the same options for shortcut like for report (for example Create report view)

In Cognos 10.2 you have option like Create report view, Edit report, ... directly for shortcut. Now in Cognos 11 this options are available only for report itself.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add an element in a cubeviewer

We would like to create an element in the IBM Planning Analytics Cube Viewer via right-click. This would greatly improve user-friendliness.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

User-Friendly Data or Event Alert Tool

Please add the ability to send an email or SMS alert based on a user-defined trigger, like a data-based alert. Have it send alerts or run + send reports to email or mobile device. The legacy Event Studio tool has more than enough functionality - b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Workbenches Open

It would be very helpful for developers and admins to be able to have more than one workbench open at a time, the same way you can have multiple books open. I understand you can only have one "new workbench*" open at a time, which is fine. My prop...
9 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Needs more information

Add connection type and server in catalog filter

When we filter assets in the catalog, besides the source, add the option of filtering by connection type (e.g. Db2, Teradata, etc.) and by server.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration