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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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Remove the option of Classic View from Cognos Analytics for all users

There is an option to go to Classic View when creating a schedule. We need to remove this option since the Classic View UI has the look and feel of Cognos 10 and can be confusing to some of the users. Moreover all the functionality in classic view...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhance IMAM S3 Connector to be compatible with a session token generated by AWS STS service

Upgrade to Amazon S3 connector of IMAM to be comptatible with a STS session token. As for now, the connector can only be set up using accessKey and secretKey and it does not allow to connect to AWS in case the company policy is to make use of a te...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

How to Change text of summary

Hi, I have a requirement where user would like to change the text of summary (which displays at last for list and crosstab report) to total or any any other meaningful name based on the ouput during the creation of dashboard. However, we have the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

BigSQL installation using nonroot user needs /bin/bash permissions

For BigSQL v4.2 installation using a non root user such as ambariUser (for example), sudo /bin/bash is needed for this user. Clients is claiming s a security risk for them. They are requesting to remove this permission on installation process or a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Planned for future release

Unit of Work - KCOP Commit operations

Source is --> ZOS Target is --> Linux Kafka using Confluent Bank of America is the client and they want our kafka message to be like their sample message below that client mocked up for the transactional commit : { 'Key {"CONT_ID": " 0739126...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to compare profile runs and identify trends over time

Demonstrate the ability to identify data quality assessment's trends over time
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

OOTB capabilities to support a business-friendly UI for documenting data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc.  

Demonstrate the OOTB features to handle: documentation of data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc. 
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support automated data certification (e.g. gold, silver, bronze)

Automated process for data certification, based on data profiling/quality assessment (Data Certification – based on data profiling/quality result and standards update metadata with proper certification rank)
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release