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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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Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Prevent entry of duplicate line in MASK and EXCLUDE

Currently MASK and EXCLUDE allows for duplicate lines to be added. ADM only uses the first line and ignores any duplicate lines even though some non-key data can be different. This can introduce errors for the user if it is not noticed there is du...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Custom Error Message on Login Page

Ability to show custom error messages on login page without having to use SDK. We have application which has link to redirect to cognos page. More than 500 clients use this app. SSO is implemented. User information is stored in Active directory. ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Read only access to IBM openpages configurations

as like read only access on ibm openpages objects via roles. Is there a way to have read only access on IBM openpages configurations like workflow, views, calculations, etc.. This will help business admins can view the configurations and recommend...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration