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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.

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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Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

How to Manage a subset that is presented in the spread function as default

Using a Classic View, the selection under the Spread Function show us a complete list of the member of the dimension. We would like to see here the members depending on a subset.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Screen should remain in full screen when moved from one dashboard to other using drill through

As a user if I select the full screen option , it should remain in that mode until i change it. Currently, when I select a full screen and navigate it to a different dashboard using drill through, the full screen mode will be exited and I need to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Federation Issue on DB2 ORACLE COMPATIBLE databases when remote is NOT ORACLE COMPATIBLE

When a DB2 Oracle compatible (ORA) is federated against another DB2 DB that is NOT-ORAcle compatible, any select involving char columns results in not pushing down the request to the remote server and transmit the huge amount of records across the...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Support Blue/Green upgrades #cpfieldel

Feedback CP4D should support blue/green upgrades (yes, if the required hardware is in place). Business Justification The justification is that it helps CP4D become a mission-critical platform that doesn't need to be down for multiple da...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

WKC granular metrics at asset level

Customer is interested in getting details on metrics like how many people accessed a particular asset. Baiscally their plan is to create a leadership board kind of tool to keep an eye which catalogs or assets are of high value to their end users.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration