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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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[Copy] DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

backspace does not function correctly with input other than type="text"

The following HTML5 input types do not support backspacing: It looks like the file /pat/halcchl_block.js is attaching an event listener to disable the backspace, with an exception for text areas and input type="text". Please include the previously...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change VEMKD Behavior when unable to access vemkd/container/event file

After receiving RFE 145547 (patch build 563255), there was an occurrence where VEMKD continually restarted due to not being able to access the $EGO_CONFDIR/../../kernel/work/vemkd/container/event file. I'm requesting a similar patch to RFE 145547 ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Not under consideration

Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Optim z/OS Install CLIST maintain proper buffer pools

I would like to suggest that the installation panels for Optim be changed to allow for separate bufferpools to be entered and retained for tablespaces with 4K and 8K page sizes. Currently you enter a buffer pool for tablespaces and another for ind...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Controller Email Feature to connect to Controller Appl instead of direct to SMTP server

controller client to send email instruction via Application Server to SMTP server, instead of current design where client machine calling SMTP server directly. IT policy does not allow users to connect directly to SMTP server. With the change, use...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages when the Protocol is https

Opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages is very useful for the user to avoid downloading files for updating. In some installations, for security reasons, it is mandatory to implement the https protocol, which is currently not compa...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Display Services Tier operating system resources in Ops Console

In an environment where ISD jobs are exposed and IGC is also used it would be useful to be able to view the resources for the services tier.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration