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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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Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered

Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered. The report should contain what access rights were removed or added for the us...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Planned for future release

Powerplay Studio / PowerPlay as a container

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** PowerPlay Studio / PowerPlay as a container required to allow smooth transition from Cognos Analyt...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted
206 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support TimeSeries Data Type on Informix .NET Core

Microsoft .NET Core is the 5th Programming Language around the world. We have several projects where we gonna use Informix Time Series with C# language. Would be great if Informix .NET Core support timeseries data type.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE functions in Db2 z/OS

For updating and searching in JSON objects which are stored in Db2 tables we need the JSON functions JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE. They exist as a dummy in Db2 z/OS but are currently not supported, not documented and do not work. In Db2 ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release