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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Loss Entry Application enable association capabilities to other parent GRC objects

When entering a loss via the Loss Entry Application the user is currently unable to associate the loss to any other GRC objects outside of the business entity. The request is to enable the user the ability to see other parent GRC objects and assoc...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Allow for Dynamic Cubes in the Cloud

Multiple customers have requested the capability to create/utilize Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Analytics on the Cloud.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Totals in stacked column / bar chart for every bar or column

Within Dashboard we require very often at stacked column or bar charts, that the total of all stacked cetagories is visible above the bar or column. Currently we can only enable / disable the values for every stacked cel directly at the bar. But n...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
about 9 years ago in Db2 5 Future consideration

Use profile tables for local applications

We use profile tables successfully for different scenarios. In addition to remote applications, our DB2 IT infrastructure also includes local applications for which we also have profile table usage scenarios. For example, we set the explain mode f...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Future consideration

Bursting option in schedules of report views

Creating a schedule for a report view which refers to a report with bursting configured does not show the bursting option. The bursting option is only available in the schedule properties of the report itself.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control passphrase case sensitivity

Today passphrase or password input is set to uppercase characters or not dependent on profile option CASE. When this option is set to UPPER, then all lowercase characters are converted to uppercase. This leads to failed logons and in the end to re...
4 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Logging of assignment of permissions

Assignments of permissions on all objects should be logged into the Audit Database or a log file. It's important to see who gives whom which permissions and when.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration