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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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Add SQL Function to create MD5 hashes (Oracle has GET_HASH_VALUE function)

Native function to create a MD5 hash from String parameter. Other databases has already this kind of functions: Oracle, MySQL. For compatibility, we can use Oracle name: GET_HASH_VALUE
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Script to automatically deactivate users who are terminated in the organization.

Client would like to send a file with the list of all the termed users to IBM and request IBM to use the file to automatically deactivate the users from the planning analytics environments.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Disable viewing subsets for selected Planning Analytics dimensions

Having many subsets in Planning Analytics dimensions is very heavy for Cognos Analytics when loading the package. We would like to chose if CA have to load subsets for a dimension in a cube or not: for some dimensions is very helpful to see all su...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to disable swapping dimension swapping and ability to hide subsets in Views - creating fix View

Planning Analytics Workspace enables developers to decline user access to set editor for given view. Very often clients ask us if this feature could be extended into fixing Views in PAW even more. hence we would like the ability to: 1. prevent use...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable READ ONLY access to DB2 from Informix using DRDA protocol

This is request for Wal-Mart , we have 100s of Informix gateway manager installed (DRDA) to join quries Informix and DB2 database.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

OptimeYes

This brings to your notice that Cognos analytics does support numbers of database instead of IBM InfoSphere Optim Archive as JDBC data source type because there is no driver available in Cognos analytics about Optim Archive. Could anyone suggest u...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bug report: entering codes for missing values

I am running SPSS v29 under a concurrent license. Entering negative numbers for user defined missing values does not work now, neither in the Variable View or in Data&Define Varpiable Properties.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

carousel option for options

Useful for when options are >5 Anyone could benefit from thisCarousels/galleries are very common in chatbots
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration