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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 22, 2026

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Add a Column to Results Table: Connection

From a Report definition perspective, the Data Source Connection is a key differentiator between differing implementations of the Template for execution. Having this information provided in the Results Table would greatly aid Users in identifying their Reports among the sea of these, especially for some of the most heaviliy used reports in our organization.

Currently, Document Builder Results table requires user to utilize Tags before running as only identifying option for results. When running multiple simultaneous reports, the default Results table is cluttered and extremely difficult to differentiate when the addition of Tags is forgotten.* Connections would add another layer of identification to reduce the manual labor of having to download a report to see what the content is if Tags was not set properly.

*NOTE: From a process design perspective, those reliant on human behavior are inherently extremely error prone; adding this column greatly increases error resilience by eliminating the dependency on human process of adding a "Tag" when generating their report.

Idea priority Medium
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  • Guest
    May 26, 2026
    As part of the review process, we strive to be transparent about our intentions with each idea suggestion. The IBM Engineering Reporting team has reviewed the idea, and based on our understanding, it is accepted as an uncommitted candidate.
    We have an exploration not planned yet to confirm what columns we can provide as an option to the user to select (customize) the results view.
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  • Guest
    Apr 29, 2026

    The recommendation of usage of Tags demonstrates lack of understanding of Process Engineering, error resilience, and most of all, having read the initial description as I've explained precisely why this is particularly problematic.

    Even if we add a new other layer it would depend on user's manul input, which would could be forgethen as well.
    False: The DSCx (Data Source Connection) MUST be Named (as it's infrastructure to Doc Builder usage so process control would dictate these will follow stronger protocols in definition (these aren't defined per execution either, frequency of process step not only increases cost, it increases error opportunities - that DSCx are defined once / Stream means if they are defined correctly, they will always be correctly defined; if incorrect, it will be detected fairly quickly if this column is added).

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  • Guest
    Apr 29, 2026
    Hello Andre,

    Thank you for submitting idea.
    We discussed it internally and Data Source Connection can also be a duplicated information in different templates, becasue you can use the same data source in different templates.
    The recommendation as best practices is use different Names and Tags.
    Even if we add a new other layer it would depend on user's manul input, which would could be forgethen as well.
    Could you please provide a screenshot or any other way to show what you are thinking for this improvement?
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  • Guest
    Apr 28, 2026
    Thank you for submitting idea. IBM Engineering team review board evaluated this request and determined it will need additional time to evaluate this request.
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