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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Restrict Burting Options per role/group/user: Run in parallel, Use query prefetching, Maximum key limit

Those using burst options can unintentionally take up all Cognos resources by enabling running bursted reports in parallel and setting the maximum key limit to 0. Administrators should have the ability to restrict these burst options from being se...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Allow passing "Extra Data" item on drill-through definition from 11.1 Visualizations

User wants to see [Product Line] in a visualization so that users see the name of the product line. For performance purposes, we want to pass [Product Line Code] on drill-through. Currently the only way to do this is to nest the dimensional inform...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Inactive Users identified via the TFUI

It would be useful to have an easy way to identify inactive users via the TFUI. We have an internal policy where accounts are de-activated after 90 days inactivity. These accounts could be Risk Owners, Control Owners etc. Having a mechanism whereb...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Consideration of Statistical Views for INSERT with Sub-SELECT

We try to improve the performance on an INSERT with an underlying complex subselect eg. "INSERT INTO table "Therefore we created a statistical view through which the optimizer should be able to get more distribution statistics and build a better a...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Need a hit counter for the PAw reports

We want to know what PAw reports are getting looked at by users. So a Hit count would be very useful to let us know how many persons are using the report
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Excel Tab Names

When outputting report booklet to Excel, there is no way to name the tabs. Ideally, those names should be controlled from properties of the Report Booklet reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manta support for Informatica Cloud (IICS/IDMC)

AbbVie has many workflows using Informatica Cloud not Informatica Power Center. In order to see lineage across systems we need to be able to scan the lineage from Informatica Cloud as well. Informatica Power Center (IFPC) Manta connector is workin...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

IBM Manta : The export of data lineage from Manta Flow Viewer UI for a revision to PNG format needs high resolution.

Problem: Post workflow execution, when you preview a data lineage for a revision in manta flow viewer ui and export the lineage in PNG format. Next, when we try to use the export PNG file for data lineage in a PowerPoint Slide. The image is not cl...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted