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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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Provide option to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module

Unable to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

missing input validation

Malicious input of attacker can be restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

PA for Excel: Search bar in Set Editor

A search bar would be more intuitive and would save one click.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Work identification based on number of subsections in a statement.

Work identification can currently be done based on Estimated cost, Estimated cardinality, Estimated data accessed. Ref: "Work identification by type, cost, or data accessed with work classes - IBM Documentation" This allows for identification of c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

Enhance DB2 Load WHEN specification

Coding the DB2 Load utility into table WHEN statement to allow for several specified values, not just one, is found in a given field, would be a useful enhancement.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Workflow Notification Audit Trail

As an administrator, we need to have an audit trail of all the notifications which are sent by the workflows. This will help us in providing the details of to whom and what notifications were sent by the OpenPages as part of the workflow execution...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration