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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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Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Default action when accessing shared URL

IBM Cognos analytics V11.0.8 introduced the capability to set a default action for reports. A report default action could be set to 'Run' which causes the report to run when the report is clicked in the interface regardless of the existence of a s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

SDK connecting with OKTA via OpenID

On Cloud we cannot use Gateway to hide multiples namespaces and we are usign OpenID with Okta. We have applications running with SDK and now it must to connect using OpenID.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDM Connector for CP4D-DataStage

MDM connector will use API calls that will be directly integrated with MDM server resulting in better performance when processing large data volume. Alternate method for MDM connector is to use web service call which involves xml parsing or using ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

TRRI Type Import Feed Parameter setup for Currencies Exchange Rates

The kind of TRRI import setup like providing the ftp details username/password/directory etc,. from the application itself can be made available for importing currencies exchange rates as well where customers almost load them 3-4 times a day. All ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Not under consideration

Ability to create REST endpoints via UI

Today there is no ability to create WQ RESTful endpoints via the UI. RESTful endpoints which expose virtual data need to be created via the Db2 RESTful API. A large US Federal customer requests a UI screen to enable user-friendly creation of Db2 R...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review