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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Access Cognos REST API via Gateway URL

Currently, IBM Cognos Analytics only officially supports REST API access via the dispatcher URL. While technically possible, using the Gateway URL for REST API access is not supported. This limitation presents challenges for customers whose networ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Conflict refiner for heirarchical goals

Idea: Create a multi-level / hierarchical conflict refiner Given a formulated problem that has multiple goals with different priorities, hierarchical goals, if the solution from the first level makes the second level infeasible it is not easy to r...
4 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
over 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 3 Planned for future release

Allow Cognos Analytics portal authentication via API Key as a URL Parameter instead of the CAMUsername/CAMPassword/CAMNamespace parameters

With OIDC namespaces, the standard URL parameters for authenticating via URL do not work effectively due to redirects and MFA. This makes it challenging to authenticate directly via URL. It would be idea if we could authenticate via an API Key in ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Implement nonconvex quadratic constraints in CPLEX

CPLEX already supports nonconvex quadratic objectives, but not yet constraints, even though they bring a lot of flexibility in modelling.
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
5 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add Python 3.12 and 3.13 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX for 3.11 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.12 and 3.13.
almost 2 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Submitted