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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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Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

Provide certificate based authentication

We'd like to see certificate based authentication being offered for DB2 LUW and DSM.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Relationship Editor - Selecting several related items at one time

Real-life scenario is that user has to add several related items to a product in persona-based UI. For example user need to create a relationship from item A to 25 items 1 ....25. Currently user has to open the editor, search and select items in r...
10 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Improved admin of user rights

The administration of user rights, with a great number of users, is very time consuming. With many users, having more or less the same company rights but with minor differences you need to set up and maintain one company security group per user. I...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Keep company in security rights after end-date

When selling/likquidating a company, you set an end-date in the company structure. As a result, the company will disapear from all company security groups. No user will be able to select and see historic values for that company until you have manu...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Attach file to an investment template

Possible to attach a file in the comment window in an investment template (Group - Data entry - Shareholdings and investment, Investment template)
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Improvement posting a journal in Controller Web

The posting of journals in CCR Web is time-consuming. Would be preferable to be able to write in the cells (account, dim1-dim4) and not forced to select from drop-down lists.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

A tool to copy statistics between environments

A tool to copy statistics between environments, currently this has to be done manually in an unsupported way. This would also allow refreshing statistics on a copy of the environment without needing to refresh the schema e.g . nightly copies. Also...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Updated replacement for Analysis Studio

We need an updated interface to replace Analysis Studio legacy application. As of now, there are no equivalent capabilities that are easy-to-use adhoc query capabilities of Analysis Studio. Our company has relied heavily on this tool and now that ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration