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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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Clicking on Save button in reports throws error for users without save permission on report folder

Cognos throws error when user clicks on save button after interacting with report. User doesn't have access to save report in the same folder. Cognos should throw a warning message rather than error.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove all world writable permissions on files and directorys see also 79173

Our Security does not want to see files and directorys which have the world writeable permission set se also fea 79173 PMR is case TS000140222
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

I want to enable to specify default sort order for books and folders on Workspace.

I want to enable to specify default sort order for books and folders on Workspace. Currently we can't set default sort order method, so is not convenient. We want to set sort order by specifying the name and update date.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Subset Data Module functionality (create w/only uploaded files, for ex)

Provide ability to create data module with EXCEL data source ONLY to Business Authors.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RTM Implementation Total GPU Wall time statistic.

RTM GPU Wall time statistic is limited to "only Finished Exclusive job has GPU wall time reported and it based on DCGM".We would like to see statistic for GPU wall time usage regardless job exist status and GPU mode. Also because GPUs are occupied...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to switch between portal pages in Cognos Analytics

We have CA 11.1.7 FP2 installed on our environment and are trying to configure portal pages based on roles in Cognos, as follows: Log in with System Administrator account, go to: Manage -> People -> Accounts -> Cognos -> select rol...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration