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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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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

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Future consideration

Reports not refreshed when a package is updated

After a package has been updated, all associated reports no longer use parameter caching to improve performance. In order to re-enable parameter caching, reports must be resaved manually, otherwise this may result in RSV-PMG-0003 errors. We woul...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

I want to execute an arbitrary process when the workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.

<AsIs> Currently, the only way to start a process is to click a button or execute it as a job. <ToBe> I want to be able to execute an arbitrary process when the Workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

job comparison between different environments (like in 11.7)

Currently in 11.7 - there is an option to compare the jobs between different environments. It helps to identify what actually changed comparing to the production copy and helps for UAT. The same options is missing in CP4D.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement Request for User Roles in IBM Planning Analytics

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I am writing to propose an enhancement to the user roles within IBM Planning Analytics. Currently, administrative roles in IBM PA possess comprehensive privileges across all aspects of the system. However, this...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration