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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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Interactive vs Non-interactive re-run differences

When you click the run on an interactive report, not the drop down on the run you get a prompt page to re-run. If you click the drop down there is no reset prompts and run choice. When you click the run on a non-interactive report, you get a drop ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

SQL Data Insights - APIs for model retraining plus all other maintenance tasks available via UI today

Most enterprise customers do not use UIs at all outside of test systems, all production work has to be automated and scripted. SQL Data Insights requires the retraining of a model in case the data in the underlying table or view changed. So retrai...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update of SDK documentation for CA

The SDK for IBM Cognos has not been updated since 10.2.2. The current version of CA contains at least 12 new classes: ShowHintsEnumReportMetadataHistoryDetailMoserServiceBaseReportMetadataExplorationCustomizationDataSourceSchemaBaseModuleUploadedF...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Oracle CDC: Add the ability to mine only the archived redo logs with Primary DB

The customer is testing a 3 pipeline design pattern of Oracle CDC → Snowflake use-case on SDC 5.10, Oracle RAC DB with PDB. They are testing the jobs in a test environment with production like volumes. During the test, they noticed in the logs tha...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Require SAP Business Warehouse functionality

This was/is a feature in 11.7 and is not yet in Datastage Cartridge/NextGen. Needed for customer work.
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

With out installing symphony binaries , we can make compute server with copying of entire compute working symphony directory

Hello IBM, we make symphony compute server with out installing ibm symphony binaries with we can copy entire working symphony directory from working compute host. copy bashrc and ssh keys then you can start the compute server with ego service Ex: ...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Preview for WebP

Problem Description/Example of Pain Points:Currently, our company handles a large number of images, and the number of images in WebP format is increasing. However, the IPM application lacks the ability to preview WebP images, resulting in signific...
5 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Report layout is not same as layout of the old version

In the current version/setup, we are running the embedded report library, which may cause slight layout differences in some reports. The embedded report library cannot be modified directly and requires an enhancement or idea request. The current v...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect