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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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Connector Key Columns

Add "Key Columns" as in Netezza Connector also to other Connectors.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 4 Not under consideration

Reschedule multiple batch jobs (multi-select) at the same time

Our clients use Maintain -> Batch Queue -> Manage in order to reschedule batch jobs in Cognos Controller. They reschedule them to be executed immediately. The jobs are put in a queue which is fine and executed as configured (1 by 1). Unfo...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Support or warn of null (linklisted) DB2 STEPLIB and RUNLIB

DB2 Admin Tool customization via IBM TCz (IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS) requires the user to specify both the ‘DB2 load libraries’ and the ‘DB2 run library’ for each DB2 subsystem. There is no 'option' to specify: 1) A single set of libraries for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide Dynamic Cube Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of meta-data

Provide Dynamic Cube (DC) Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of data source meta-data. This setting would allow the same DC model to reference a TEST and PROD version of a data source in which different case characters we...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Users from sharing Credentials to run reports/jobs

In IBM Congos connection going to "My Area Options" > "My Preferences" > "Personal" tab users can add other users to share thier credentials to run activities. This can't be controlled from capabilities or by customizing xml files.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permit relative proportional spread using a consolidated element that has negative weighted elements.

Let's say you want to spead 10000$ over 12 months in broker fees and you want to base your spread on net sales (a level 2 element for example). If the net sales has deductions for transport (weight is -1), you will get an error stating that there ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to hide/disable folder delete permissions without removing write permissions

Problem statement: In Cognos 11, a user with either the Professional Author or Business Author role can delete the entity folder for their company. These users have write permissions to the entity specific folder since they should be able to creat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Cognos BI - Assigning portal pages to Cognos Groups and Roles from within Cognos Administration without SDK

We need to assign IBM Cognos BI 10.2.2 Portal pages to Cognos Groups and/or Roles from within Cognos Connection (Cognos Administration) - not only to single users - without SDK!
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages request, vendor ID to be populated in the ID field and assessment name populated in the name field, for vendor assessment emails.

When a vendor assessment is launched from OpenPages and the system generated email is sent to the vendor to complete the assessment, it would be a value add to populate the vendor ID in the ID field and the assessment name populated in the Name fi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Enable HTTP/2 protocol feature in Cognos Analytics WLP

It should be possible to enable HTTP/2 in the provided WLP for Cognos Analytics - Liberty supports this feature; HTTP/2 supports queries multiplexing, headers compression, priority and more intelligent packet streaming management. This results in ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists