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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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duplicate existing role or user group

To be able to clone users, user groups, and roles to make user set up and assignment a lot easier. We're currently setting up several sub-categories as data domains. Each one will have a different user group as approvers for workflow purposes. To ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Report View option for Delivery in Scheduling

When Scheduling the report in Cognos Analytics,users are provided with the option to Save the report, but not as report view. With Security, the users cannot save the report in Team Content. This is causing issues when scheduling the report. Case ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

to be able to define drill through on any other package, not only supported on default package

We developed some reports with multiple packages. We are trying to define more than 1 drill through definitions on one report. On this report, the first drill through definition is successfully created after we set the package as default. The seco...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preserve and/or restore SSO configuration during an upgrade

Update : 05/17 Being Tracked here ICPD-1535 : Target v5.1 Bank of America experienced a problem during an upgrade of their platform where they lost the SSO configuration. It took two weeks to diagnose and fix the problem. See support case: TS01527...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

Improvement in the check for high serial values

I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Support for cognos bridge (IBM Cognos Content Manager)

There seems to be no cognos bridge (IBM Cognos Content Manager). *The bridge is constructed according to the following URL. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203761 Therefore, I cannot lineage BI reports. I want you to support IBM Cogn...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search All My Content Folders with Search Engine in Cognos 11

Would it be possible to have the Cognos 11 search engine look in everone's My Content folder to find objects. Right now, it can only searh Team Content and my own My Content.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 CLI connect to remote database with encrypted password file

The DB2 CLI command line does not provide a way to use an encrypted credentials file to connect remote DB2 databases.The idea is to have a similar solution like the encryped password file for SQL/Q-Replication.The replication tool asnpwd can creat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add LDAP Group Filters in Cognos Configuration

Please Allow us to Add LDAP Filter at Groups Level too. Currently, we are seeing all the Groups in LDAP which is slowing down the Cognos Login and Report Execution times, We have 10,000 Groups in LDAP and every time when user login to Cognos or pe...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration