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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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OAuth support in exposed web services

Add OAuth as a supported authentication when exposing datastage jobs as web services through the IDS
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Provide End to End Latency at a level that is more granular than seconds

The End-to-End Latency metric value has a unit of seconds. Such granularity makes it difficult to determine the benefits/impacts of tuning efforts and configuration changes as well as any potential impacts during performance testing. All database ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance on multifact query on an informix database

We make Cognos reports on multifacts creating multifact queries with full outer join. To keep the query execution time low, we need absolutely the enhancement/fix be implemented in the next informix fixpack 12.10. It is unacceptable when the compe...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Improved status on Workspace processes

With docker only recently being ported to windows, we seem to lack a dashboard or portal that we can tell the status of all related processes allowing an admin to know when workspace is in a state to allow user community logins. Currently we look ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Informix : Re-introduce the -w parameter for dbschema

Re-introduce the -w parameter for dbschema so a remote dbschema can be done.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

ODBC Connection to Kerridge DB/Kisam Driver

We'd like to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud to our Kerridge Database via ODBC. As it stands, the Kisam driver doesn't enable us to build a connection in Planning Analytics and is not supported, so we cannot create this connection and instead ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration