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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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Quick Scan: table/asset business term assignment please

Quick Scan does not currently assign a business term to the table/asset level. It only assigns at the column level. Table level is needed as well. Ideally a table level term/class could be assigned and then a classification could be automatically ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
almost 7 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

Find and Replace functionality should be applied to only selected items in Collaboration, not all items by default

The current functionality of the 'Find and Replace' button requires filters to be in place to allow only selected items to be updated. Otherwise all items in the Collaboration Area are included for updating even if only a few items are ticked in t...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to set concurrent licensing for all users system-wide

SPSS 28.0 changed the way concurrent licensing works. Every user must explicitly select the concurrent license in the activation wizard the first time SPSS is launched, even if the administrator has already configured concurrent licensing. This is...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Functionality already exists

Full name of elements in legends in Column charts

I am using stacked column chart in PAW. If my elements name is long, it doesn't show the full name, instead it completes the name with a series of dots. Can this feature be added ? Also, I have the user to use acronyms using alias such that the el...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

to have all cookies in cognos analytics support HTTPOnly attribute

Hi, Due to recent tighter security requirement, we would like to have all the cookies used in cognos analytic to support HTTPOnly attribute. Currently not all cookies support it thanks
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration