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


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Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Add support to use Cognos Analytics via Android browsers (touch interface)

Provide the ability to connect to Cognos Analytics via a browser and use touch to navigate my content on Android devices.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW Image local folder

When designig a PAW Book, we can insert object types "Image": to show it, we have to put an URL which addresses the Image. To do this, we need to setup a new Web Server or use an existing one (if we have...) and place all you images onto this web ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Using QR Code for login in Mobile App with SSL or SSO

Lots of our customers using SSL and SSO for Cognos Analytics On Prem. Since Cognos Version 11.2.4 they also more and more use the Mobile App for consuming Dashboards. The point is that they currently have to enter the Dispatcher URL for connecting...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Replace the 404 page for SDC 6.0.0 with an Informational page like Platform's headless UI page.

This is really to stay consistent in Platform like when navigating to the SDC page to accept the certificate. The 404 page causes confusion as there might be something wrong. A replacement page with information that SDC 6 no longer has a UI would ...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Time Sync Issue - Needs to be fixed

This is for the known issue Link - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/defect/aCIKe000000fywC/dt392450?language=en_US
2 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

We would like assign a secondary category for a term that is under the same root parent category (IGC 'referencing categories' allows this behaviour)

We have a possiblity to assing a secondary category to a term but it is not possible to use this functionality when the secondary category is under the same parent as the term. We are using this functionality to keep terms under the primary catego...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration