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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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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 restrictions in visualizations on data item type like measures

to make the visualization definition more flexible and easier for users it would be beneficial to remove the restrictions on item type. Typically there are visualization where you can drag in some part only measures. These restrictions make it com...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

JGate log file cleanup

We need a way to limit the number of log files that JGate will create.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Max number of nodes for LSF service class

It would be useful to set a minimum value of guaranteed nodes as well as a maximum value in the distribution of an LSF service class
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Longitudinal Tobit analysis

In many epidemiologic longitudinal and rehabilitation studies, the outcome variable has floor or ceiling effects such as the Barthel Index and Stroke Impact Scale (SIS). Although not correct these variables are treated as normally distributed cont...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for a new zParm parameter, named for example IXCOPY to be set to YES or NO in order to choose how DB2 creates IX

This RFE requests a new zParm parameter, named for example IXCOPY to be set to YES or NO in order to choose the default for indexes creation:- if IXCOPY = NO (default) DB2 will continue to work as now, that means that DB2 will create all indexes C...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web report to suppress zero value

Controller Web should have a Company Journal Across report equivalent that eliminates all zero values account. The report will not be too lengthy.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Relative date enhancement

In K-12 and Higher education organizations, we have terms. Would like to be able to setup a term to be able to compare it like current month to previous month, using a concept like relative dates.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration