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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Add IIF-functions to ControllerWeb-import specifications

In ControllerClassic it is possible to use IIF-functions in Operartion Templates for sophictiated assigning of codes. For instance a Countercompany-code either from a Participation account or from an extra field where a counterpart is displayed
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Needs more information

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted
506 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
25 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
12 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Development or test stories for an Agile Development Team for the Explain or RA

Customer is looking for a capability that will draft initial development or test stories for an Agile Development Team. It would be great if functionality was provided either out of Refactor Assistant or even Explain to build these user stories fo...

REST API for resetting vendor user password

As part of our Customer Business we do managed 1000+ Vendors in PIM, where 2000+ users are mapped under that, and expiry Policy of the Vendor User is 3 months. So, each time user password is expired or if users are forgetting the Password there is...
7 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Database overview in numbers

I would like an overview of the database in figures. There was already something like this in Architect. In PAW I can't see how many cells a cube has and how many of them are filled. Or how many elements there are in a dimension. These numbers giv...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted