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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Function in Openpages to push the user's email recorded in Openpages to Cognos Analytics without developing cognos SDK

Currently the email recorded for an user in Oppenpages and the email in Cognos are not sync, a business will have to manually type their email address when trying to send report to themself. There is no way to add that for the user themself withou...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

To have SSO working with Opepages and IBM Cognos for Office

Is there a way to log into Cognos from IBM cognos for office when it is through Openage and SSO is used? Notes: we have the Login redirect URL set under Manage > Config > System and since we are on OP 8.3, it no longer support Internet explo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Interface between CPLEX and FORTRAN

Since FORTRAN is one of the TOP20 programming languages in the TIOBE index (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/), I suggest that IBM create mixed-integer linear programming models with CPLEX and FORTRAN. I have not found a library similar to Concer...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

DVM Query Optimization Utility tool

The SQL Select statement used to define a virtual table or virtual view can be a complex one with multiple levels of JOIN operators, predicates and SQL special functions nested together. It will be handy for developers to have a utility tool that ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Generic Error Message for Failed Authenticaion

Hi, I would like to know if you could change the error message comes from DB2 for z/OS via IBM Client Driver when a wrong user name or password is given. In this current situation we get two types of error messages one states that USER DISABLED/R...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Controller AFC is not transferred into FAP properly

When transferring AFC values from Cognos Controller into FAP, figures are not transferred properly and therefore cannot be used in reporting purposes. For example, consolidation data is wrongly calculated within TM1 because each consolidation leve...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Standby node with higher version

When a Db2 version upgrade is requiered, currently it should be done in the active node. However, there are some scenarios when preparing a standby with a higher version is easier. For example, when migrating to new servers, with higher OS is bett...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow to Hide Instructions in Reports

Currently, when running reports in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service (SOAR), the reports do not allow us to hide the instructions, making the report longer than necessary. It affects all users in the organization that have access to the platform. Pr...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Not under consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration