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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.

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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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Add diverging color palettes (especially for use in heatmaps)

Add one ore more diverging color palette for visualization especially in use of heatmaps.(Currently only sequential palettes are in.) Popular choices would be Red-Blue, Blue-Red, Green-Yellow, etc. Here a few examples of palettes
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enable multi-factor authentication for Cognos Controller Cloud

With increased global cyber security activity / threats faced by businesses across the globe, it would be great to enable multi-factor authentication functionality to Cognos Controller Cloud that aligns to the ACS Essential 8 maturity model.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Suppress validation errors

I would like to have my users become aware of validation errors but not make them mandatory to correct. In other words, I would like to suppress the validation errors. To have a validation suppression to become configurable in the product
about 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

configurable setting on SQL pagination in search resultset

I would like to have a configurable setting for the product to be able to perform a greater pagination of DB SQL fetches. Currently, the product fetches the search resultset in 1000 rows x n times until resultset is fulfulled.
about 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Get SAML supported in Cognos Controller

We are currently looking to further secure our environment to manage global remote access using a tool which requires Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) capability from applications. We need Cognos Controller 10.X application and client SAM...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add multiple Calendars/ Public Holidays on OpenPages

This would be useful as the bank operates in multiple countries, each with their own set of public holidays/bank holidays/religious holidays. This would assist in ensuring that time periods for specific tasks/ reminders are appropriate per country.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Preview function Support for Greenplum in 'default catalog'

PMR feedback: only the following connections in the data preview is supported in default catalog: • Db2 (native and JDBC connections) • Oracle (JDBC connections) • Teradata (JDBC connections Customer ’s data source is Greenplum, which is not on th...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration