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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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Need a detailed log for the import/export of Cognos BI deployments which shows all the sucess/failure status of all objects

As of now, to know whether the cognos BI deployment is successful or not, we have a high level summary status of deployment of success/fail in Cognos BI portal. Similar high level information is available in cogserver.log in the Cognos install dir...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to access Cognos Administration through a specific URL only

An additional option is requested to access IBM Cognos Administration through a separate Gateway URI only. Currently access to IBM Cognos Administration can only be restricted by capabilities.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job Activity by compute node

Problem: How to determine which job caused high CPU usage on a specific compute node. Workaround: Using the IIS console 'Activity > Resources' narrow down the window of the event that occurred on the specific compute node. Parse the 'dslogger' ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Add Special Characters Such as $ to Account Code

Currently, our company has started using special characters such for accounts as we have run out of numbers. These new accounts with numbers and special characters (like $) can not be entered into Controller.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

TM1 AUDIT LOG DOES NOT CAPTURE USER ID OF FAILED LOGIN WITH MODE 5

Por temas de auditoria, estoy revisando los accesos fallidos de los usuarios que tratan de conectarse a planning analytics, solo que cuando se usa el modo 5 (PA - CA) esos registros no se ven desde los registros de PA, solo se ven desde CA, tenien...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDA Insufficient Access Authority when logging on

Ref TS003663019 - When using CDA there is no option to log-in with read-only access so the assumption is that any CDA user could add, delete, or update a subscription. This is inapproriate for a Production Environment hence why we are experiencing...
over 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Owner and Giver to reside in different CIFs

Sample scenarios: An adult (parent, guardian) provides consent on behalf of a child. The child is a client, the adult is not. A company officer provides consent on behalf of an organization For both scenarios the following five cases are material:...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration