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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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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

Certify Oracle 12.2.x Enterprise Edition for MDM 11.5

Please certify Oracle 12.2.x Enterprise Edition to support MDM 11.5.
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Functionality already exists

DataStage - File Connector - Add support of NULL type when reading PARQUET file

We use DataStage for most of the ETL jobs. We want to read PARQUET file (which contains nullable columns) and do further processing on it. But File Connector does not support NULL type when reading PARQUET file.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DB Sequence Support

All stages which supports usage of db sequence (Surrogate Key Generator, Slowly Changing Dimension Stage, Transformer) supports only Flatfile, Oracle and DB2 Databases.Please enhance the support for other database like Netezza and other.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Pivotal Greenplum Median function executed locally in Cognos

Pivotal Greenplum Median function executed locally in Cognos
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration