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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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Create New Locales or re-use/repurpose existing

Currently there are 10 locales (and a 'Reporting Design Language'). International business keep asking about Polish, Thai, Ukrainian, etc when we want to do build outs of modules or onboard a new region. Watson translate has helped with that, but ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Option to terminate of SLB after timeout if HSM doesn't answer Flashcopy-request fast

I would like to have an timeout in DB2 for SLB-processing!If HSM is in error it may be able to accept the Flashcopy-request but not to fulfill it. To prevent 00D70044 there should be an option for a DB2-internal timeout of SLB-processing.If this t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for pulling Data Source credentials from HashiCorp Vault password stores (and other cloud native password vaults)

We have requirements driven by IT to standardize on storing passwords for applications in HashiCorp Vault, a centralized password store that enables fine-grained access to the credentials. Today, we have to create crude integration scripts to main...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Under review

Member unique name for measure dimension based on memberID

Hello, we would like to base a measure dimension element for packages based no Planning Analytics cubes on memberID like for elements in non-measure dimensions. Today its based on caption which is changing with business needs so its not very stabl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

"include as link" option when choosing to "send report by email" should be configurable

We currently have our own custom authentication process to log into Cognos which is via SSO. If a user chooses to "include as link" when sending an email, the link will not bring up the report. Because we have our own product which we want the use...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Ralph Davis

Cognos Data Modules need expanded capabilities to model Planning analytics cubes. Basic model can be created, but limited in scope. As a result, any self service is diminished in the COgnos Dashboard environment.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Collections

In IGC we have collections as on the feature where we can group it's really useful can this capability be added IKC UI .
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Query Capability

IGC we have capability to query from Metadata ( Example Database / Schema, Tables, Business Terms, Mapping Projects etc) and save them. Can we please include this capability from application
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release