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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.

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[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support MongoDB in IIDR CDC

Currently it's supporting Cloudant very well, we hope it can support MongoDB as well, then we can easily replicate data to MongoDB in cloud.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow 3 different options for statement concentration.

We would like 3 options for statement concentration. It is importantthat all three options are available. 1. No concentration. (already exists) 2. Concentrate queries that have no parameter markers (Current DB2 concentration) 3. Concentrate querie...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OData as a data source for Cognos Analytics

We are deploying a new SAP CRM and SD system, and already have SAP FI/CO. We have, and will extend our OData API on the SAP Gateway. It would be ideal to be able to consume these OData sources in FM and/or lightweight modeling in Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

It should be possible to use subsets in DBRW formulas in PAX

It is possible to have a subset reference in DBRW formula in Perspectives, the formula is then using the total for all subset elements. This idea has not been implemented in PAX. If the user upgrades to the new version of PA and wants to use exist...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

ReCalc functionality (as in Perspectives) need to available in PAX

TM1 ReCalc functionality on Perspectives should be available on PAX as well, which is not the case currently. As Perspectives / CAFE would be replaced with PAX now or sooner, all Macro functionalities are expected to be work on Planning analytics ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration