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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    Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

    A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
    over 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

    Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

    Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

    Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

    When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
    over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

    More efficient unique indexes for monotonically increasing keys and constraints

    Currently an index on a SERIAL and other monotonically increasing keys only add to the last node in the index causing the node to split into two half filled nodes. Eventually a sufficient number of nodes have so split that the index's search effic...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

    Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
    almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Add individual Agent task level information into Cognos Audit Package

    Using Audit package we would like to get individual task level information defined within an Agent. Currently there is no table/column in the Audit package to fetch that information, only overall Agent level data is present.
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

    Knowledge Catalog allow users to create more robust and consistent rules by directly incorporating existing reference datasets,

    For reference data, we propose enhancing them by enabling their use within data quality rule and definitions. This functionality would allow users to create more robust and consistent rules by directly incorporating existing reference datasets, pa...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

    Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules

    Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules. Today, when creating Data Protection rules you need to type the column header names you want to select and it is very err...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

    Allow IKC with Data Virtualization and data protection rules in bulk

    From the IKC GUI, the customer is requesting the ability to do IKC with data virtualization and allow to configure data protection rules in bulk. This is to enhance security (less errors) and similar speed up deployment of many data protection rul...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

    Configurable retry mechanism for failed jobs within IKC

    We would like to propose the addition of a configurable retry mechanism for failed jobs within IKC. Specifically, the feature should allow users to define retry parameters such as:• Retry interval (e.g., every 5 minutes)• Maximum number of retry a...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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