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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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Data Files Limits Configurable per user group

Within Cognos 11, you can identify a size limit per upload and a max size limit per user. However, if you modify these limits, you are affecting all users of the environment who can upload files. Ideally, it would be helpful for some users that be...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically remove expired risk lisk entries

Currently we need to manually select and delete expired risk list entries. We would like to see an option to enable this for a lisk and have the daily maintenance job wipe the expired entries from the list.
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Refresh from maniframe to PostGreSQL extremely slow

Some large DB2 z/OS table are loaded daily. Those tables are needed on PosgreSQL side also. We use IBM Data replication to deliver automatically data to PosrgreSQL. When refresh starts I can see on log message: Target parallel refresh is disabled ...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Deployment of Individual Data Modules

Problem: You cannot select Datamodules individually for exporting/deployment. The only option is to select a folder. This creates problems if you have a central Packages/Data module location for you business users. You cannot deploy a single or mu...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Secondary AUTHID and Patterns in AUTHID column of the RLF tables

In order to make administration of the RLF tables easier, we would like to be able to enter a Secondary Authid or an ID Pattern. Secondary AUTHIDs would allow us to use definitions in the Security Manager to accommodate resource limits for many ID...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Setting the data type in the data asset node of Modeler Flow

When handling numeric data in CSV, values with a large number of digits are judged to be invalid records because they fall outside the Int32 range. From the customer's point of view, this data itself is not abnormal, and there are cases where the...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

ControllerWeb - Reconciliation optimisation

Currently, the limitation concerns only the “IC reconciliation” (see – “Largest Difference Accepted During Reconciliation”) and NOT the reconciliation between Assets and Liabilities… Therefore, could you add a field in order to reconcile with a ma...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

LDAP with SSO combining multiple ID field types #cpfieldcsm #cpfield

Bank of America uses LDAP with SSO. They were trying to use user search field as mail, but could not. The support case tech SME responded: Anytime an ID is used, you can not combine multiple ids as it will not serve the purpose. By default it uses...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

"No Data" option on Dashboard visualisations

We need the ability to display something more intuitive to users if filtering a dashboard makes a visualisation return "No Data".
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration