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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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Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analyctics - Workbook and Tab recalc on activation

When navigating using a button widget from a PA Workbook or Workbook Tab to another Workbook or Tab, the activated target does not recalc.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Add multi-thread cancel capability to PE Client

As a System Admin, I would like the capability to cancel multiple Db2 threads from PE Client Thread Summary display with just one mouse click. I would like to select one or more threads and, when I click the right mouse button, have the opportunit...
7 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable Non-Owners to Replace R/Shiny Deployments

Background: After making changes to an R/Shiny dashboard (and promoting the updated asset to a deployment space), it is preferable to "replace the asset" of an existing deployment rather than create an entirely new one (and delete the old one). Is...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

CREATE TABLE LIKE "table-controlled partitioning" should create the table with same partitioning scheme and rules

When a table that uses table-controlled partitioning is identified in the LIKE clause, the new table should automatic inherit the partitioning scheme of that table and create an uts PBR.
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.

Currently, CPD doesn't support Postgresql connection without the database name. Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.
7 months ago in Connectivity 0

dashboard conditional formatting

The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration