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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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Fastmap to validate dependcy rule & dependency picklist

Users are leaning towards using fastmap to input data instead of using GUIWould like to have full validation on fastmap import data as UI
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Functionality already exists

Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add more criteria for MONITOR CONNECTIONS in DB2 PROFILE tables

Currently the DB2 PROFILE table only allows LOCATION as the selection criteria with the MONITOR CONNECTIONS keyword. We would like to restrict the number of connections a particular application can open, but the connections can: 1) come via a shar...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

LSF Resource Connecter should allow start/stop of *existing* AWS VMs.

We have procedural limitations with creating new instances in AWS on-demand by LSF Resource Connector (RC) for security reasons. Our preference would be to create instances ahead of time and let LSF RC start and stop the instances based on demand....
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Functionality already exists

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Db2 should allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only.

Db2 currently doesn't allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only, this port is left as open port and can be connected from other machines, unauthorized users can exploit this information to test vulnerabilities in the open service a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Request for API to search with Partial name of the Project/Catalog

Let's say I have 20 to 30 projects which are unique in their naming convention, Let's say I’m using the Naming Convention as follows: Eg: Structure of Project Name: <Application Code>_<Application Name> Exact name using the Structure: ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists