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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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Protection way for prevent an existing BU from numeric to consolidation level

Is there a way to set up safeguards to prevent an admin from accidentally adding a new business unit (e.g., 211A) under an existing numeric business unit (e.g., 211) in the business unit dimension? Currently, if the new business unit (211A) is dra...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Update DataSource connection details via a config file or DB sql

Our install is on WINOS and consider 'on-prem' type.we migrate our prod Cognos to lower non-prod by way of Oracle DB DMP export and then Import that into our target Nonprod env Cognos db.we have steps sql steps and UI operations to cull and remove...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Enable feature to prompt users to opt-in Cookies

One of our customers reported a security vulnerability where Cognos cookies are issued without user consent. We propose implementing a feature that prompts users about cookie usage upon login. This prompt should provide users the option to opt-in ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

RAG Compiler/static analysis tool output

In order to support features like /resolve and to improve code gen, providing the output of the compiler and static analysis tools that are relevant to the current context in a retrievel augmented generation fahsion would be helpful (in the case o...

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Create options to disable hierarchy feature

Right now in PA, hierarchy option is enabled by default whether you want to use it or not. We want to have a way to enable/disable it through config parameter, so that people can use it rightly. Please make this option as false by default and peop...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Alerts on Long running Jobs based on the historic runs

Can we add a feature to alert DataStage batch administrator based on the history of long running jobs.
11 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review