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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Federation support for Transient Schema

Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Required Support for Dynamic LDAP groups

Our company is implementing Dynamic LDAP groups and as per the PMR: 22069,442,000 this is yet not supported by IBM Cognos 10.2.1. Without this enhancement to support it will be a challenge to take Cognos to UAT and Production
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show Business Terms, Quality Scores, Data Rules, Stewards, etc...from a lineage graph

In IGC this was accomplished by creating a Template and applying that template to a lineage graph - when you downloaded the lineage to a pdf, the template was applied. Please see a sample of the pdf attached to this idea.
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Have out of the box relationships (and their inverse from Data Asset to Governace Rule to Quality Rule

These out of the box relationships are used in regulatory compliance use cases for the Catalog - this is also a parity issue with existing IGC Users who utilize these relationships today. We need to have a relationships as below: Data Asset-->G...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Fall back to previous IC if latest IC needed is unusable

The Db2 RECOVER utility falls back to a previous image copy if it finds a needed image copy unusable. This is also true if a recovery plan in Db2 Recovery Expert uses the Db2 RECOVER utility. However, if Db2 Recovery Expert uses a recovery plan th...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Control PAW Application Announcements over TM1

Only a PAW Admin can create Announcements in a Application. It also has to be done manually. It would be helpful to generate a announcement automatically. For that it would be practical to use a cube/view as source for the announcements.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PPT and DOCX Viewer in PAW

It is possible to share a document via link in PAW. It would be helpful if PAW can display the common file types like PPT and DOCX directly in a Book.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Non-admins should be able to change datasource (file) of TI on Cloud

Currently only Admin users can change the data source of a TI-process and also upload new source files via Cloud. In a scenario where 10+ different legal entities should upload files each month, all will need to first be sent to the admin user who...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration