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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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A feature to display all the Assets counts in WKC Reporting UI

A feature to display all the Assets Counts in WKC Reporting UI, instead of validating it from 2 different places like UI & DB. Real life Scenario: Let say I have a Catalog with 1400 data assets, Then I ran a reporting feature on the catalog to...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow Session Scheduler to support the queue level Job Starter when the Session Spreads to Multiple Hosts

In testing of Session Scheduler, it works perfectly, on secondary hosts, it does not seem to respect our job starter which will limit our ability to deploy Session Scheduler more broadly. Closing this gap is important.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data Lineage and Impact Analysis - Availability of version control on schema metadata

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to track changes on metadata, so that I can check how a previous version of metadata looked like, so that I can control from my end if important attributes are not lost while the source is being changed (e.g., ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add user group filter for bacct and bhist

To evaluate jobs w.r.t. user groups/fair share groups I would like to have a filter for user groups in bacct and bhist similar to the option -G of bjobs.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

DVIPA used for failover and workload balancing for the IDFPORT

we have set up DVIPA for workload balancing and failover for the normal OEPORTNUMBER, but we would also like to have the IDFPORT be set up to use DVIPA to be able to fail over to different members of a DB2 group if 1 member of a group fails
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration