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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    Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

    Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
    5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Under review

    An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

    Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

    Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

    Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
    27 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

    The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

    When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation: /.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage Specifi...
    2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

    QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
    almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

    QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

    QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
    12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    QMF read only mode

    QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
    10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

    There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration

    Configurable "smarts"

    Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

    QMF v12 functions stopped working after Windows 11 upgrade

    Client uses QMF for Workstation v12 under Windows 10 without errors. Client platform upgraded to Windows 11, now some underlying functions that worked on QMF v12 no longer works. Client needs help with determining if QMF needs patching (or version...
    5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

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