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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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Data traffic encryption

IBM Netezza Performance Server does not support data traffic encryption when Kerberos authentication is enabled. All data is sent in open text despite kerberos having the functionality to encrypt data transfer. This is a huge security gap that sho...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Ability to use PageNumber function in a variable to render the object conditionally

Product: Cognos Report Studio 10.1.1 Currently, according to defect COGCQ00017674 , PageNuber() and PageCount() report function can not be used in a varaible. We wants these function to use these functions in a variable so he can render the object...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Unify the CASE package version number with CP4D refresh version number

We have too many version number in CP4D and its services. For example, CASE package version, Operator version, Operand version and Service version. Operator and operand versions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-ope...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Allow Notifications on Report Views

The Notify Me feature is currently allowed in C11 R13 only for report executables. However, in C10 we could allow the users to create their own notifications on report views. This was a very popular feature for slower reports with many views. Plea...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute multiple query report into CSV and Excel 2007 data format

If multiple query exists in a report, you cannot download all data both in csv and Excel 2007 data format.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to export estimated coefficients and adjustment statistics into a table from the SPSS Modeler stream

Our prospect would like to export all the estimated coefficients of a predictive model and all the adjustment statistics (such as R2, error %...) into a physical table.This is a standard features that SAS has using the OUTEST= option for their sta...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_TAB_INFO is sloooow and this has been the case for quite sometiome.

Extremely slow when used in a RP environment. Also used by check_upgrade which takes 7+ hours to run. Environment has 2million+ objects, 1 range per day for 3 years. Check_upgrade may be calling check for load pending which used admin_tab_info
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

db2pd -inst attemps to collect PureScale information in a non-PureScale environment

db2pd -inst attempts to collect - quiesceinfo and - iperiodic even though they are not appropriate options for the non-PureScale environment. It seems like db2pd should be smart enough to collect the information appropriate for the operating envir...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration