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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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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Light Theme in CP4D

A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Correction needed for Actuality selection when running import data with loop on Web

On the upload tab, when running import data with loop enabled on Web, you are presented with the actuality name from the context of the location you are connected against. However, when you select the drop down menu button next to the actuality na...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Increase timeout for 'Delete Data change details older than (days)', when trimming large XDBAUDIT table

When customers have very large amounts of information inside their data audit log (i.e. when their XDBAUDIT SQL table gets very large) then the button "Delete" does not work (inside "Maintain - System Audit Log - Configuration"). Specifically: T...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

DataStage Flows View in IKC project need to control based on User Role and Project purpose

Please note this is an extension of previous idea - CPDIDEAS-I-2331 ( IBM Ideas) Need IKC Project User View (or access) restrictions based on DataQuality, DataStage and Metadata harvesting purpose. Proposing 3 kinds of Project Views - IKC project ...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review