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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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Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add additional security for NZ SaaS

We would like to see Netezza SaaS allow a CIDR block to allow only legitimate IP addresses which would limit others coming from the Public Connection to gain access.
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Improve logging/tracability options of (HTTP) Case actions

Currently when executing case actions the investigator gets no information (UI) that an error might have occured delivering the message. Also the logging of errors within a case audit trail seems only to work for HTTP error codes which are stored ...
11 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Case Prioritization

Need the ability to automatically prioritize cases acrossdifferent queues based on the nature of the cases and business rules (e.g. High value transactions).
2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

PAfE to track PA-enabled Excel spreadsheets only

Threads/TM1top/The Session Monitor displays the PAfE version, Excel version, Excel workbook name, and Excel sheet/tab name of the current Excel workbook open by the user. Instead of displaying any Excel workbook open by the user, I believe it woul...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted