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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.

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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Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Data Module Export/Import - Distribution

We need the ability to distribute a data module to our client base where the database name it references may change from what we have developed the data module against. This will most likely happen in a multitenant, cloud environment, but could ha...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Platform switch Windows-Linux using OFFLINE database backup image

A platform switch from Windows to Linux (or Linux to Windows), would be much easier if one can use the DB2 backup image itself. Not necessary between two different DB2 versions, and it doesn't have to be an online backup, and of course platforms a...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Custom control on saved outputs and when scheduling reports with auto-generated prompts page

Custom control using JS code is working fine when we run report interactively, Same is not working when we schedule the report using batch process .Please let us know how this can be fixed in CA11, we have tested the functionality in 11.0.5 & ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure different email settings for each tenant (particularly FROM email address)

When configuring email functionality in Cognos Configuration, there is only one configuration possible. For example, if you are setting up email for your company (ACME), you can set up the sending email address as cognos.reporting@acme.com. The pr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CPA005 Transaction Rejected in FTM Base but Accepted by Gateway in PFS layer (Refer WorkItem Work Item 114946)

During AFT application development, we found that FTM Base rejected transactions where getting accepted by Gateway in PFS i.e. FTM Base Rejections are not considered by Gateway for updating a payment's status. We raised a RTC defect 114946 for thi...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Oracle RDS as a source for CDC (to send data to ANY CDC target)

For AWS Oracle RDS, we do not have access for the OS so we dont have access to the redo/archive logs. We need CDC repluication tool be capable to read the Oracle transaction from RDS oracle as a source and replicate, in our case the target will be...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Ability to Edit/Modify PAW Calculations

When creating a custom calculation in PAW or adding a single number into the report ("Add to sheet"), it is not possible to view the logic / query nor to modify it. It would be helpful to be able to view and modify calculations and queries of sing...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow for simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier

It is an expected behaviour of the simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier.
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration