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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Hive Connector with a Kerberos authentication

We need an option to connect to a Hive using Kerberos authentication. Previously the IBM offering team offered us to use a "Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop" connector from IBM but it doesn't fully suit our need and here is why: this "Hive via...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Fast Apply - allow ALA@FSP to pass work to DSNTEP4 if unable to process query

We use IBM Fast Apply (program = ALA@FSP) to apply SQL statements we have generated (not coming from LAT as any undo/redo activity). The tool cannot handle everything that is supported by DSNTEP4. So, thought is to have it push the work to DSNETP4...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

PAW Hide and Pin Servers in Server Tree

Currently the server tree displays all configured TM1 servers alphabetically, it would be beneficial for end users to be able to pin servers to top of the list. An end user that only ever logs into one instance that begins with an "s" shouldn't ha...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Subset in DBRW formula to create a consolidation

Subset to consolidation process causing top nodes in the hierarchy to change level and structure causing multiple issues with the PE hierarchy. Hierarchy consolidation and calculation issues
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Delivered

Possibility to filter group journals in the group journal table in order to exclude System Reserved journals from the list

It would be beneficial if there is a possibility to filter on Group journals in the Group journal table under the menu Group/Data Entry/Group Journals in order to have a better overview of the journals. If there are many journals posted on a group...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down.

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down. Currently timezone is where ever QMF EE is deployed on. For example: QMF EE web app is deployed on servers that is on EST. it will run task on EST regardless of timezone you think you are runnin...
almost 4 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

FIPS140-2 Bouncy Castle Compliant

In reviewing the security elements for IBM Cognos and it has come to our attention that it uses the "BouncyCastle" java archive, which is NOT validated for FIPS 140-2, which is a DoD security requirement for software encryption tools.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to save upload file to a location other than my content

Currently when uploading a file it goes to my content, would like the ability to choose the location of where the file will be uploaded. The way it is now, you have to do a move to the location.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered