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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
5 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
5 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Kerberos Authentication for the Cloudera Kafka connector

We use kerberos authentication on our cloudera schema registry, we were told by Manta support team to disable the authentication on our side to try the functionality while you finish the kerberos authentication development. We have successfully co...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Cognos REST API - Permission check that only displaying the folders/items the logged in user has permissions to view.

Via de Cognos REST API - The call: api/v1/content/team_folders/itemslogged on as a specific user with a security token, you always see all the folders of present. It is not limited for the folders that the user has access to.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Ability to update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted