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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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


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Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiline Labels on Map Visualisations

I would like to be able to display Multi Line Labels on the Map Visualisation. This would allow me to display a customer address over several lines like an address label. I have tried appending the address details separated by Carriage Return, or ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple retention periods for OnBar

Multiple retention periods for OnBar. Allow two or more retention periods to be defined for OnBar backup. For example, 0 – 60 Days: Keep all backup objects, Level 0, 1, 2 and Logical Logs61 – 120 Days: Keep selected backup objects, Level 0 and...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve Tab - Filter for Low Confidence but not Irrelevant

I would like to be able to filter logs to find user utterances that are not irrelevant but are less than 50% (for example) confidence so that I can decide whether they were correctly understood or whether they should be added to the examples for a...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Control Schedule Capability on a Report Specific Level

We'd like the ability to control whether a user or users can have schedule capabilities on a report level.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Attribute in crosstab table in a dashboard

It would be nice to be able to display attributes of a dimension alongside with the dimension itself. Currently we can only display either the element or one of the attributes, but not dimension + attributes.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

badmin appclose/appopen for maintenance of a specific application

For maintenance reasons it would be helpful to close/open applications for dispatching like for queues and hosts by the command badmin qclose/qopen and badmin hclose/hopen respectively.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Shell scripts to perform command line operations

We are looking for shell scripts to perform operations such as Add databases to monitoring Update collection ID Update password for collection ID Above were already there in DSM.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Better manage Dashboard pins

If I want to make optimal use of (saved) dashboard pins, I would like to have these additional capabilities in the pin library: be able to create folders/groups be able to rename pins be able to add tags to pins, including one called "favorite" be...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration