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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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Echancement to user security for Life Cycle Manager

Hello, Product - Cognos Life Cycle Manager Purpose: Enhancement to user security We currently have Shared Platform within our company supporting 10+ lines of business with over 2800 users. When using LCM(Life Cycle Manager) we experience some issu...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support IMS Unload file of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Do away with having to enter @ for character comparisons in Turbointegrator

Having to use @= for comparison statements for strings as opposed to just = for numeric is cumbersome.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Restrict Basic Signon for Internal Use Only

We would like to restrict our Cognos Basic Sign-On page to be available to only internal users (ie. restrict this page to only the internal Network). External users should only be able to login via the Single Sign-On page. We are not able to restr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow REST services make use of Kerberos authentication.

Today, any REST API authentication calls (logon) need to be provided with a username and password in order to get a conductor token. We would like to be able to use a kerberos mechanism (for example, keytabs) in order to authenticate with the logo...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pull Cognos report relating to specific object when in the object

When viewing a LossEvent for example, would it be possible to add an extract functionality so that we can pull a particular report pointing to that LossEvent reference and data directly from OpenPages. We have a 'Single Event Summary' report that ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Mapping of the parameter user name - official documentation by IBM

Request relates to the case TS007570460 from IBM support. The subject matter is the inappropriate mapping of the parameter user name in CP4D, i.e. ambigous mapping of user name. By default the mapping of the user name in CP4D is not equal to the m...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Additional language support

We really need the ability to use NLU (classification, sentiment, keyword extraction or entities) in additional languages including Vietnamese and Thai, Traditional Chinese (HK Cantonese)
over 2 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Future consideration

Text orientation

Text orientation is not supported from Excel, so when you publish a sheet and view it via PAW the text loses its formatting. This means I have to make the columns extra wide just so the headings are readable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration