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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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Provide filters in 'Included Content' to limit what is updated in the content store

We use SDK to show the saved outputs in our own application. With Cognos 11, the default output version setting is 1. To allow our clients to see the last 5, we run a job that updates the setting to 5 for all content in the tenant root folder. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for ADO.net

In the context of BI tools (SiSense, Power-BI) it is quite frustrating to use Inormix databases as primary data source and it would be valuable to have also ADO.net.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to fill lookup attributes via keyboard

Product: MDMCE 11.5.0 - Single-Edit-ScreenCurrently the (new) simplified UI permits a convenient enrichment of most attributes just using the keyboard, e.g. TAB-key to jump to the next input field. However, lookup attributes are more complicated t...
over 8 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Monitor archive file location for access problems

When the archive location is not accessible by the cognos dispatcher the problem should be logged and reported to the system administrator.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Function to sort cube and dimension names once alias /locale name has been applied

We are in a position where we need to add more meaningful aliases to cube names and dimensions. However, when we add the alias the sort order is based on the original name. To ease user consumption of the new names we would like an option to sort ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
almost 3 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration