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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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Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Db2 should allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only.

Db2 currently doesn't allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only, this port is left as open port and can be connected from other machines, unauthorized users can exploit this information to test vulnerabilities in the open service a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Possibility to use the "Sort descending"-function from PAW-views in dynamic reports in PAX.

This would be useful for creating reports and filtering out the most important data i.e the largest values in excel. This can only be achieved today by users with good knowledge in MDX. From what I have tried it is also only possible having one di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Compile the datastage jobs on server side cmnd line

We have the client command line for job compile dscc.exe. Do we have the job compile command line on the server side such as dscc.sh? I could not find it on the server. Please add it to the server side.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Open PAX exploration report from PAW

Hi IBM, Sometimes it is more convinient to prepare a report in PAW but then one wants to do a more detailled analysis in excel. Is it possible to open a report created in Planning Analytics Workspace in Planning Analytics for Excel? ThanksDirk
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Functionality already exists