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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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Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Support

Customer would like the DB2 Unload and Load Utilities to support Partition by Growth (PBG) tablespaces.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt data in transit to DB

per corporate audit finding connections from application must be encrypted, and connection strings modified to use encryption between application and database.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web - ability to use more than 13 periods for Data Entry forms

Currently, if you try to open a data entry form (in Controller Web) for period 14 or 15, then you get a message “Internal Server Error ... fsid STATUS: 500 ... Unexpected error”. It works OK if you open the same data entry form for period 12 or 13...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

OIDC Support - use access token for claims

Currently Cognos passes claims in id token along with user information. implementation at many customer applications is using access token for claims. request to provide this option.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Aggregate user licence usage graphs and license project usage graphs in RTM

We request an automation that can aggregate the license usage graphs of a user for every license service defined. For example, if there are 3 license services defined, by default 3 license usage graphs are generated for each user. There is no way ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

AWS IAM Role Compatibility with S3 Connections

Problem Statement/Pain Points: We work with a government agency who has specific security requirements and we are utilizing Cloud Pak for Data within their environment. They have a need for utilizing S3 Data Connections to resources in AWS GovClou...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Create a variable that limits available query service memory per user

Customers with large dynamic cubes and a fully self-serving reporting approach start to face issues of rampant DQM usage that causes Overloaded scenarios even on Enterprise Class Servers with 1 TB of Memory
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A better Element management approach in Leaves dimension: Hierarchy

Currently when managing ( deleting and rebuilding) Hierarchies, it's fairly common for a C: Element in an Alt Hierarchy to end up inthe Leaves dimensions as an N: element when the hierarchy is made to go away. This causes programmatic problems/err...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration