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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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Support for all High Availability Disaster Recovery features for all supported Content Store Databases

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence does currently not offer support for High Availability Disaster Recovery Features (HADR) of Databases that are used as Content Stores. Full support for all HADR Features of each supported Content Store Database Typ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access Rights on Move Option

We have faced performance issues with big customers who used to use Move Options (Folder View) for business change purposes. OpenPages has a way to limit this right but is Binary (everything or nothing), anyway customer has multiple scenarios for ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Not under consideration

tool to list out active and default base params - lsparams

Think of 'bparams' and the level of details that it provides with args '-la'. This helps in figuring out what all params are configured as default or what defaults values are affecting the scheduling. Such a tool does not exist for LSF Base config...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

send email notification to users via PA (Workspace) Administration

provide the ability for administrators to send email notifications to users to update them about administrative down times
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AuditDBCleanup for Cognos Analytics

A version of the AuditDBCleanup tool for Cognos Analytics is needed to provide easy cleanup capabilities for IBM Cognos audit logging databases, allowing old database records to be deleted regularly based on a timestamp.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

GUI workflow editor

Problem Description: Editing case workflows as plain text is not obvious and it may lead to human factor errors. The proper way of creating complex workflows now is drawing them on paper and carefully transferring element by element to Safer Payme...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Ability to adapt destination package path when import reports

When we export from DEV environment a report which link with a specific DEV package path,we want to import this report in PROD environment where the package is stored on a different path than DEV.The name of the package don't change between the tw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lets Get Rid of the Big White Blinking Page in Reporting!

User is viewing a Cognos report, and executes a drill through or refresh...Page goes white, animated gif starts spinning forever, while you're looking at a white page...drill through report applications are elegant, except for this behavior! This ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration