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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support for new SAP BAPI function for query data more than 1M cells

Currently, when use Cognos BI query data from SAP BW. If the result is more than 1M cells SAP will return error message "BAP-ERR-0002 A BAPI error has occurred in the function module BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA. MDX result contains too many cells...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow different icons to be defined for each custom Security Provider

Allow different icons to be defined for each custom Security Provider within Deployment Manager Server Administration and then use the associated icon where ever Security Provider is referenced/used
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Identify the Security Provider associated with each result in the Available Users/Groups and Users/Groups Assigned panes

In the Edit Users and Groups for Role application window within Deployment Manager, identify the Security Provider associated with each result in the Available Users/Groups and Users/Groups Assigned panes
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to select one or more Security Providers when performing user/group maintenance

When adding users or groups to a Role, provide the administrator the ability to select one or more Security Providers when defining the search criteria as opposed to searching all.
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to search for Users, Groups or Both when performing user/group administration

When adding users or groups to a Role, provide the option (radio buttons) to search for Users, Groups or Both and limit the search on the options selected.
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable using comment lines in Transformer Derivations

When coding business logic into a transformer derivation it would be quite handy to be able to use comment lines like it is possible in SQL or any other programing language
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - scheduling active reports

In Cognos 11, the ability to subscribe to an Active Report is no longer there. This is a feature that existed previously. In Cognos 11, if I open a regular report, I get a "..." menu where I can choose to subscribe to the report. However, for Acti...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Mark a row as "archived" so it will not show up in regular SELECT (or other SQL) operations

Oracle style Data invisibility (archiving) with In Database Archival. See this article ==> http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/w/wiki/11420.oracle-12c-data-invisibility-archiving-with-in-database-archival The idea is to mark a row as arch...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration