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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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Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Children Section in Admin View should include Copy Associated action.

The new Admin View in 8.3 allows us to add the Dynamic Children section, which shows all the child relationships for the object (similar to the "Associations" listings on the left side pane of the old standard UI). This is great as it allows us to...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Add separate permissions for metadata enrichment areas in an import project

WKC projects in 4.5.+ use metadata import areas and metadata enrichment areas. Access control is only available at the full project level. In some instances, individual groups of tables need to be enriched by one set of SMEs and other table groups...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

AWS Dynamo DB

AWS is all over the place and people who uses the DB services are growing everyday. on the vendor list do not see any Dynamo DB support, it would only be helpful to add this to the list
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Allow adding email address /name and direct search

Currently adding email address / names is a very complex and confusing process for end users IT would be nice to type in a name or role and get Cognos to confirm its correct And if not allow to search without selecting folders
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implementation of an option for "Windows Integrated Login" in SDAP-ODBC Driver for Sybase IQ Wire

Still SDAP 8.0 Driver for "Sybase IQ Wire" works fine in SPSS Database Wizard, but needs a Database-Account to be typed in. Our Customer only works in an Windows AD Domain and must use "Windows Integrated Login"-Feature - there is no specific user...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration