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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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Allow passing an id_token_hint into the Logout Redirect URL when logging out of OIDC namespaces

With OpenID Providers such as KeyCloak, it has previously been possible to send a user to their logout URL directly, without providing any token. For example: http://{domain-name}/auth/realms/{realm-name}/protocol/openid-connect/logout?redirect_ur...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Allow workbenches to be bookmarked (unique URL)

Workbooks can be bookmarked, but workbenches cannot. Now that a lot of functionality that used to be available in workbooks is only available in workbenches, it's necessary to have quick access to specific workbenches that are related to workbooks...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Open the book with the comment

When I open a book and someone else is editing that book, I want to see a message that the book is being edited. (When I edit a book and want to save it, I notice when someone else opens and edits the same book at the same time)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete books or views

If I delete a book or view by mistake, I have no chance to recover it. (it will be deleted forever, I need recycle bin for PAW)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration