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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the restriction SQL1407N

When loading a table using a remote cursor on a table containing an XML colum, the load failed with the SQLCODE SQL1407N.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 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'...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

PAW: “forecast period end” selector should start from selected “Forecast period start”

In PAW, Forecast Set up window, after a user selects a “Forecast period start”, “Forecast period end” should start from the start period selected (see screenshot) When there are many history periods, it is very time consuming to find the current t...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Set chores in Local Time

Ability required to setup chores in Local Time using Planning Analytics Workspace. As this functionality exists in Architect, it would be helpful if this was replicated in PAW.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send report output via email

Once a report has been run in a portlet (in this case a SharePoint Page Viewer web part) there is no option to be able to send the report output via email. The client would like this functionality to be added to the product (either via a button th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration