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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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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

Add support for JKS (Java KeyStore) files in connection configurations.

Add more connection options to support JKS (Java KeyStore) files instead of only allowing SSL certificates in plain text format. Currently, connection configurations only permit the use of SSL certificates in text form, which limits flexibility an...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

High Contrast Option in PAW for Color Blind Users - Accessibility Enhancement

I have a user who is struggling with differentiating rows in a cube view and reporting in PAW. The current white/grey coloring of every other row does not work for the user with color blindness, when trying to differentiate rows in a report over m...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration