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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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Prevent bulk csv load from creating drafts in case a draft already exists

At the moment "according to design" a user can bulk load CSV which automatically creates drafts, even though a draft would already exist. Such behaviour (having duplicate drafts) is not possible when editing in the UI, but for mysterious reasons t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Adding "All users" collaborators when creating categories via csv

When in IKC we create a new root category using the ui or the apithe new category created has as collaborators in access control both the user who created the category with category role owner and the "All users" group that has viewer as category ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

MSSQL platform connection fails when user attempts to save the connection

Users are facing issues with MSSQL platform connection when attempting to save the connection for created projects. Users are able to test the connection successfully but are not able to save the connection which is stopping the users from perform...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Current Limitations of CP4D Role Management

Currently, although CP4D roles allow editing to add or remove functionalities, they are not recommended for user customization. This is because any changes made are reset to the default configuration whenever the zen-watcher pods are restarted. As...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Need a function for excel link and reports for the "Country or Region" code seen in Company structure.

In the Company Structure “Maintain > Company Structure > Define…” there is a field “Country or Region”. The customer requires a there a function to retrieve this information in Controller reports or the Controller Excel link. IBM have confir...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

CP4D - Reference Data Sets - Column Descriptions and Default Character Length

DRAFT, enhance it based on the details at: https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1758281856675439 The business would like to add a “Description” value and have the “Default character length” value displayed for the column names “Code...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Under review

Commentary enablement against Controller Web reporting

In supplement to BACC-I-548, can Controller Web reporting also seek to improve the functionality for commentary capture. Users typically want to provide commentary on Controller at a summarised level, not an account entry level. For example, comme...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Functionality already exists