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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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Add the ability to reset passwords for non-interactive/fs accounts within the PAW --> Administration / Welcome Kit Settings page

To ensure appropriate security protocols are established; passwords for all accounts interacting with our environment need to be rotated on a regular basis. The ability to trigger this activity should be self-service similar to the rotation of ric...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set Capability in Teamcontent and on Datasources/Dataservers

In Cognos, I want to set role/group base capability on items in Team Content and on datasources/dataservers. Users have permissions on lots of sources, like datasources/dataservers, datamodules and packages, because users run Cognos reports and da...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add HADR support for DB2 Content Stores with Cognos Analytics

Customers have HADR DB2 Solutions which they want to use with other IBM Applications for example IBM Cognos Analytics - currently Cognos does not support the HADR functionality.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Export Simulation Analysis Results

We'd like an ability to export the simulation analysis results, including all rule and attribute related analyses. We'd like to be able to do simulation and analysis for a longer period of time (30, 60, 90 days). However, due to memory and time re...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Profile and QA a dataset using RDS composite keys

Most of our RDS have composite keys to create unique codes for different countries and systems. Having an option to use a subset/ filter/where clause using the composite keys of an RDS to profile or quality assure data would be useful. Sample cust...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Custom Authentication should be able to be debuged.

Currently if you try to debug a Custom Authentication Provider it is slow and unable. This is related to the Websphere Liberty addion. Some one in dev needs to look to see how to set this up so when trying to debug is not completly unusable. Also ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

SDK Update.

The SDK that ships with Cognos is out of date. An example of this is the cookie UP. This cookie can out in Cognos 11 but it not in the SDK. This is a big problem since the cookie is required to open up the Job screen in 11.2.4 FP 3.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Windows Services should stop all the Cognos Services.

When restarting the Cognos Service all Cognos components are not shutdown. Windows Services should be the control for the environment. This is import for a redistributed since we have to deal with the issues cause by having part of the server stil...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Provide 'Member and leaves' option for PAW advanced synchronization

Hi team, We like the addition of the advanced options when it comes to synchronization in PAW views. One thing to consider is adding the option to synchronize members on rows based on a new option called 'Member and leaves'. This is very common re...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release