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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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Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Make map visualization viewable in PDF format

The interactive map visualization is a fine thing while using it interactively online. Some of our users would like to put them (of course in the starting zoom level) in pdf-reports, which is not possible. They could use legacy visualization like ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable Multiple Users to Enrich Different Tables Concurrently in a Single Enrichment Job

We are requesting an enhancement to allow multiple users to enrich different tables concurrently within a single enrichment job. Currently, the system throws an error message when more than one user attempts to enrich different tables at the same ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Controller Web Open projects on company level

Reporting units has to see projects referring to periods and actualities that they have finish. When a reporting unit has locked their company they still see the project as open when they enter Controller web. This becomes most annoying during per...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Add TLS support for CDC iSeries

Today more and more customers in France wants to implement encryption for the data's replicated by CDC. Especially for Bank/Insurances/Telecom
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Planned for future release

Save Report to Uploaded CSV File or consume directly in Data Module

Create option to save a report output so that it gets directly uploaded into Cognos again as an external file and can then be consumed by a Data Module. Or alternatively have Data Modules consume reports directly We currently have about 20 Cognos ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

PA for Excel: Undo button in Viewer

Undo button in Viewer would make life much easier.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard: No Limit on displaying data values in the list on filter.

Currently in dashboard, there is a limit of displaying all data values in list on filter.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period. - This has been discussed with Jason Sizto.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Planned for future release