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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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Enable SAML Support for Cognos Gateway Web servers (IIS /Apache) SSo

SAML Configuration support for Cognos Web servers /Gateway
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Inherited Access to Logical Data Model and its Entities and Attributes

The Business Users would like access to be granted at the Logical Model level, and this access be inherited by all Logical Model Entities and Logical Model Attributes, or access granted at the Logical Model Entity level and inherited at all Logica...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

FAP Client notifications when Data mart goes down due to an error.

Real life example, date mart stops working at 18:00. The next day you check the data and notice that they don't match. The cause turns out to be that Fap Cline has stopped working. It would be very helpful to add notifications when Data Mart goes ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use square bracket and CellValueN shorthand for rules which use cross-hierarchy lookups

Currently the "shorthand lookup" functions [ ] and CellValueN() cannot be used on the right hand side of a TM1 rules expression in cases where the hierarchy in the lookup is modified to a different hierarchy from the cell where the rule is evaluat...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Formats should be Saved with Views

Currently when a user saves an MDX View from the cube viewer in Pafe the format state is not saved with the view. Formats should be saved with the view, they represent a fundamental part of the viewing experience. All users would benefit from this...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager to Update the Metadata Information from Database

Framework Manager does not update the Description of the Database object, when we update the object. If the database did not have the Description at the time of import, even when we manually key in the Description / Screen Tip to the Database Laye...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration