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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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REST API: Provide more detail about the usage/links to File-Based and External data sources.

Here are the API calls I make: To find out about external data sources (Postgres etc.) I use the url: <url>/api/v1/datasources and <url>/api/v1/datasources/<id>/connections To find out which files are imported into the platform I...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Customizable Tooltips for Enhanced Data Interaction in Reporting Canvas

Introducing advanced, customizable tooltips across various containers—such as lists, crosstabs, and charts—within the reporting canvas. This feature would allow users to display detailed reports or additional data visuals as pop-up overlays when h...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to assign the instance in which a user can run simulation

Currently user can run simulation on any instance simulation is enabled. So if multiple users run simulation at the same time on specific server the memory of that instance goes up. we have observed that the memory usage on the simulation enabled ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Allow Alternate Hierarchies to be used with the Predictive Forecast button

The forecast button does not work when the data source view is using an Alternate Hierarchy.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

MFA for Datastage Connections

We are undergoing a security assessment and per IA-2(1) for privileged access and IA-2(2) for non-privileged users (see below link and attachment for official documentation) we need to implement Multifactor Authentication for Privileged or Non-Pri...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Need CI/CD and Version Control Tool (Git) Integration (MettleCI) option in CP4D.

We have been demonstrted Mettle CI solution for integration with GIT/Automatic testing/CI/CD for Datastage 11.7 and said it would be available for IBM Cloud pak Data as well in future releases of CP4D : We have below questions on this topic 1)when...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Stored Procedure support for Open Transactions and Tables used by these regarding Integrated Synchronization

Once in a while we will se a large delay in Integrated Synchronization because of bad applications not doing commit or doing rollback of large transactions. Sometimes we have to do manual intervention and remove a table before we get out of the si...
7 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted