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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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Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Support SCOPE PENDING on REORG INDEX

With Db2 13 FL506 LOAD partition clearing and NOKEYDELETE, NPIs are left in a pending state that needs to be resolved by a REQRG INDEX. Users will have to find there NPI indexes and submit the REORGs for them. With SCOPE PENDING support in REORG I...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

"Writeback mode" in Excel Ribbon

Give more feedback (or make it non-persistent) if writeback mode in PAfE is set to value mode: If a user accidentally switches this, all TM1 sheets won’t write anything back to the cubes, and this setting is persistent. Unfortunately there is no m...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable Workspace user preferences in PAfE

Make available members deselection persistent: Many users prefer to have available members being turned off in the PAfE subset editor. But each time the editor is being opened, the deselection has to be made again. If PAfE (same as in PAW) could r...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support and Certify Oracle SE on RDS for MDM SE

To certify the usage of Oracle Standard Edition on AWS RDS for MDM SE. Currently only MDM EE RDS is certified for usage with MDM
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 6 Functionality already exists

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Future roadmap on the Database

I would appreciate it if you could help me with the following inquiries: 1) Will OpenPages support RDS Oracle DB for future releases in On-Prem environments? If so, what will be the supported DB versions? 2) Currently, the supported version of Ora...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Not under consideration

OpenPages session should not timeout when user is working on Cognos

Some users have created self-serve report which took more than 1 hour for them and when they try to save the report it fails with Firewall Security Rejection. This is happening because of the session time out on OpenPages side. Even though, there ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration