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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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CM should report client IP and SLA when errors occur

Our connection managers routinely log failed client attempts to connect via the CM, but when this happens, it doesn't report the client's IP nor does it report the name of the SLA via which it's trying to connect. Both of these would be incredibly...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow Objects to be excluded from Reporting Periods

Reporting Periods are extremely useful for a variety of use cases. Currently when a reporting period is created, all data in OpenPages is duplicated. Some data in OpenPages does not need to be included in reporting periods, so it would be great to...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Automated Data Mapping for RDM Data Imports

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM requires manual mapping of data elements to their corresponding column names and data types when importing data from files like CSV, XML, or JSON. This can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for dat...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated Reference Data Cleanup and Versioning Maintenance

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC creates a new version for each updated dataset, leading to the accumulation of older versions. There is no built-in mechanism to automatically purge older versions or retain only a specific number of recent versio...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

GIT Integration for Reference Data Management (Source Control Tool)

Problem Statement: Currently, managing code related to Reference Data MAPs, SETs, RD-Types, and small static Reference Data in IKC involves manual code copying across environments, leading to version control challenges and potential deployment inc...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Restrict access to API Functionality

Update 03/28/2024 Disable API Keys at platform level. - Low effort. - 5.0.x The ability of enabling api keys for certain users. - Medium effort The ability of setting up an expiration date. - High effort Hello, We have raised ticket number TS01362...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report schedule saved parameters in Report Properties

Users are requesting to be able to manually run a schedule. This can be done in Cognos Admin console, but they don't have access to this, and there's no way to grant them access to just the schedules in Cognos Admin console for only their groups s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration