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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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Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow us to use the profile tables to set the ACCUMACC zparm more granular

At the present time we have ACCUMACC set to 20. We have had to set this to 1 for problem determination purposes. In our active system it causes issues with our SMF jobs when we have done this for even a short time. We would like the ability to use...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
about 1 month ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Add Official Support for Red Panda / Kafka for CDC Replication

Please review the Red Panda distribution for Kafka for approval. We have been assured that Red Panda follows the Apache Kafka protocol used by CDC Replication. We would like to have Red Panda added to the supported distributions for Kafka. Thank you.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Show proper line numeration in TI process editor

Since our last upgrade of PAW (version 2.0.94) the numeration of lines of TI-process is not working properly, when at the end of the section (e.g. prolog) comments (#) are added. Those rows will not be counted, as they would not belong to the proc...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists