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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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Ability to exclude URLs in all Email Notifications

Within our organisation, a security based control is being introduced where any emails from internal systems used must not include any URLs. Within OpenPages there are hard coded notifications which we cannot modify such as workflow reminders, whi...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Native connector for Yellowbrick bulk transactions

A native bulk loader connector for Yellowbrick would help our customers to improve the performance of the ETL processes that need to move large amounts of data to and from the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse. This connector should work like the nzload ...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Filtering Catalogs assets by custom attribute values

In our current IGC setup, we have the functionality to create custom attributes and allows users to filter the catalog by these custom attributes. On the catalog screen, example users can select the database asset type and then filter results usin...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Alert Banner Time Limit

Please allow an option to modify the time-limit of Alert Banners to disappear introduced with 11.2.4 version. In earlier versions, Alert Banners never disappeared, along with dismiss button. With 11.2.4, noticed the Banners disappear after 120 sec...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Improve reliability of re-run functionality

After a server crash, current report runs must be restarted with the re-run functionality with users credentials. So the run once functionality of a schedule does not help, because it uses admin credentials. In some cases the re-run functionality ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enable zEDC for Tempdatasets

Actually no temporary Datasets are zEDC eligible, i suppose because there is no long term benefit in space reduction. Especially DB2 with LISTDEF (for example Reorg Tablespace LIST with SORTDEVT specification of very large Tablespaces) would benef...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - scheduling active reports

In Cognos 11, the ability to subscribe to an Active Report is no longer there. This is a feature that existed previously. In Cognos 11, if I open a regular report, I get a "..." menu where I can choose to subscribe to the report. However, for Acti...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration