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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Visual aids settings are not persistent

Within report the settings for visual aids are not persistent as it was in Cognos-10. Thus we appreciate saving the settings for visual aids.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of REST-API by factor of 3x providing latest report version per default without intermediate steps

REST-API provides access to latest report version asking the API 3x:1.) Ask for report details2.) Ask for saved report output versions3.) Ask for lastest saved Output version.Each request connects, waits, queques, receives, reads results and execu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to activate TCP KeepAlive on management console

On an enterprise environment is highly probable that between the Management Console and the Access Server there are firewalls.Many times we get socket errors on the console because presumably the firewall closed the connections due to inactivity. ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

TFUI - Enable Workflow Validations and Operations on SAVE

Many of the data quality rules span objects - Eg. Impact booking date must be GT Event Occurrence Date. Form rules only allow for rules on a single object so cannot be used. Workflow rules for validations and operations only run on workflow transi...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

The ability to set the SameSite flag to cookies

Cookies are missing some of the security flags, which indicates that the can also be sent over unencrypted network connections, accessed by different types of scripts, risk CSRF attacks and being used inappropriate by sub-domains. We discovered th...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add slicer capability to user-defined in-memory aggrgates for Dynamic Cubes

Slicer capability exists for in-database aggregate definitions within IBM Cube Designer. The same capability for user-defined in-memory aggregates would allow for better control over fine-tuning performance.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
8 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

View Synonym and Stopword Files in Discovery v2

We should be able to see the filename for Stopwords and Synonyms, when it was uploaded, and by whom. We should be able to view the stopword or synonym file before blindly deleting it. We should also be able to save/download the file.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration