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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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Use Cognos Analytics security groups to limit access to different Cognos Databases

When authenticating cognos controller users against the cognos analytics security (linked to AD) using CAM authentication by default every user in the Cognos User group has access to every data source configured in the Controller configuration. It...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Salesforce.com Data Source Connection Updates

Update for Cognos 10.2.2 and above. Update API version used for Salesforce.com data source connection. 10.2.2 leverages API version 18 which Salesforce has expanded the objects available within the connection in later releases.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Throttle writes during chunk creation

When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users Refer to PMR TS003370023
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Fix the issue to show destination entity after merge/unmerge in visualizer v10.0 (same as V8.1).

In old visualizer 8.1, if an entity is merged to another, visualizer search directs to the destination entity. However, in Version V10.0, it doesn't direct to destination entity. Hence, leaving no trail of entity. Please consider to fix the issue ...
over 1 year ago in Identity Insight 0 Not under consideration

SDK - create report view

As an OEM provider, we are integrating some of the Cognos functionality into our product to accommodate consumer users without the need to go to Cognos directly. The Cognos application resides within our iframe. When clicking the 'Create Report Vi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 lock escalation should be able to break-in into UOW running REL(DEALLOCATE)

At DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the following scenario : Changing CICS work to run REL(DEALLOCATE) from REL(COMMIT) was made possible in DB2 11 as BIND and DDL can now break-in. The change should give a CPU-reduction. However running b...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

A utility should be provided to allow cloning of CP4D instances

For on-prem customers with prod and non-prod clusters, it is difficult to maintain a lower instance that reflects production. A production clone process / utility would be extremely helpful for upgrade evaluation, prototyping, troubleshooting and ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Lineage metadata captured in Manta from Cognos and Informatica Power Center prior to CP4D 4.7.x upgrade should be imported to WKC.

Manta is able to analyze many more source than CP4D can currently import. Owners of the CP4D+Manta license should be able to take full advantage of Manta's capabilities with confidence that the work will not have to be redone later.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration