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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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ICAM Authentication in Cognos Analytics

We are switching our authentication from LDAP to ICAM and we are looking to implement ICAM authentication by replacing existing LDAP authentication in IBM Cognos Analytics.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Company notification

Hello, My organization has enabled a notification beneath the green bar on preproduction in Cognos (preproduction will be down on a certain date). This notification appears every time a session is started. I start a lot of sessions during during m...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Having a Reload View feature in PAW like in Perspective and Architecte

In Architect and Perspectives there are options "Reload view" or "Reload private view" in order to reload the initial saved view. This is very useful when you need to drill down from a general view to a more noarron view. Then you change the data ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Excel based import in workflow doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory, editable, viewable at step level.

Workflow excel based import doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory/required at step level, what are editable for user and what are viewable. It would be good if there can be a color coding for the user to know upfront at export that what ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Attribute Properties Hidden not available for Lookup Specs

We had an use case to keep the primary key to be sequenced provided the legacy data should be loaded to the table with its own sequence and then later the primary keys have to be autogenerated. This was achieved by maintaining an internal sequence...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

CLI command to export/import DS-objects in XML format

After developing new DataStage objects (or changing them), we have to manually export them in order to get them in XML Format. The only CLI functionality provided is istools, that Exports DS objects as ISX, which is not usable within a Control Ver...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alert/notification of crypto keys expiration

Currently there is no way to tell when your Cognos Crypto keys will expire. It takes them expiring and the site not launching and causing errors before you are aware there is an issue.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decoupling the enable bulk import option in workflow step with Allow Import into Step checkbox.

As per the current functionality, bulk import option in the workflow step is enabled only when we select Allow Import into Step checkbox which is available at workflow step level. When this particular checkbox is selected it is enabling '+' button...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration