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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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support for localized value separators in file upload

As self service BI is one of the major themes within CA 11, it should be easy for business users to easily upload any file (csv, xls) from their local environment into the CA11 on cloud, taking into account localized parameters from the customer: ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Platform Connections (for Storage Volumes) should recognize new users

When new users are added to the Cloud Pak for Data Platform, they are unable to view existing Storage Volume Platform Connections even though they have access to the underlying Storage Volume. A workaround is to update the Storage Volume Platform ...
almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

.Net Core support with Cognos 11.1.7

Our .Net Application uses cognosdotnet_10_2.dll and cognosdotnetassembly_10_2.dll to communicate to Cognos . We are in the process of upgrading our .Net Application to .Net Core . We need .Net core support with Cognos 11.1.7.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Labeling Cognos Report Outputs using Microsoft Purview Information Protection SDK

We have a business requirement to add a 'Microsoft Purview Information Protection' tags to a Cognos Report during downloads. Adding these tags to the reports will help in tracking Data Leakage in organization after reports are generated.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

The alphanumerical sort order of companies/groups starting with the letter "V" and "W" are mixed instead of separated in the Group status function

Menu Group/Group Status. It would be beneficial if Companies/Groups starting with "V" and "W" are separated and not mixed when sorting by alhpanumerical order in the Group status function. When sorting according to alhpanumerical order I would lik...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release