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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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Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Demarcate the kind of filesystem (shared vs local vs HDFS vs S3) and the kind of file (CSV, etc) when showing the lineage.

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards are using Ma...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

The name of the error log package, when downloaded from Log Viewer, should match the connection name for the respective workflows.

In the current Log Viewer tab of the Admin UI, error logs can be downloaded to verify whether Manta is correctly reading nodes and edges. However, when these logs are downloaded, they are named 'Package' followed by a reference number. I propose c...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

File System that are derived in Manta should be marked as Derived

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards are using Ma...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Offer a Hibernate SQL Dialect for Adabas

Hibernate is a famous and very extended persistence development framework in Java community.It includes what is called SQL Dialect for different DDBB providers to create correct SQL statements from Java code. We missed Adabas one, and when using "...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhancement Event Agent

Ability to select multiple steps when adding a task in one go. For example, if I have 10 agents and I want to run them from a parent agent I can multi select them from the same folder they are in, instead of selecting them one by one. The result s...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Comment colour in TI different, concerning a string with more than 1 line, e.g. mdx-expression with strings

Hello, in PAW_98 I checked that if you have a code with more than 1 line and then you comment different parts, especially strings, however, not only sole strings like 'test' but also mdx-expressioins, the colour is not always right, concerning the...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Is a defect

Remove Cluster Admin Role from the installation/upgrade/runtime of shared cluster components (License Manager, Certificate Manager)

In banking environments, roles are clearly segregated between teams (e.g., Infrastructure team, Application team). For day-to-day operations and application upgrades, the Application team should not require Cluster Admin privileges, as the respons...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Refresh when navigating to workbook

Action button to navigate to another book. Would like it to force refresh/calculate the target book even when it is already opened. To build a website like experience the user is not using the PAW switcher to move between books. Rather using Actio...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

'My Schedules and Subscriptions' screen does not give details option like Path of the report/Job

'My Schedules and Subscriptions' screen does not give details option like Path of the report/Job, How do we identify what job/report is associated with what location, Also missing the information of what dispatcher is executing a particular Job li...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration