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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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SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Provision of remote repositories for consumption of external APIs/dependencies (.jars)

We are using the management-console-api (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=replication-management-console-api) to automate some processes that are currently running manually. We work with CI/CD mats that resolve dependencies through art...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Enhancements on JSON functionality

We would like to have further enhancements in JSON area like PostgreSQL and Oracle has. Is there any plans on more functions in this area? Db2's JSON support is quite basic.
12 months ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Submitted

Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing

Currently Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing. We are now running with IPV4 and that works fine but are now testing IPV6 for future use. Data Server Manager does work with IPV6 and Data Studio should as well. We tested with 6 part address...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Provide the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in Emails

Hi, We would like to have the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in the emails generated from Cognos system in Cognos Analytics product. This ability was available in Cognos 10 by updating the ui_hide element in one of the sy...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dropdown field values do not wrap for long names

Some of our dropdown values need to have long names as they provide very specific information. These are not displaying completely on the dropdown list i.e. values are truncated which makes it difficult to find and select the right value. On the S...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

User Management as a Roles Permission

Move User Management Privileges from Global Privileges to a Role permission. Currently, user management is permissioned via a global privilege on a user's account. When the "user accounts" privilege is set to "change," the user can view and edit a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted