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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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List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
12 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

In depth Matching algorithm tuning should be performed in the UI, and not requiring a third party application like Postman or Insomnia

In the current state, we cannot tune the algorithm to the needs of CTC's customer context without having a technical counterpart who can access the JSON object. In a target state (ideal), we would be able to change the 1) source level threshold 2)...
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable to embed microcharts in tables (lists) in dashboard module

In Report Module you can add (legacy) microcharts in a list. I would like to have this also available in the dashboard module: adding a microchart to a table widget (list).
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Enhancements on JSON functionality

We would like to have further enhancements in JSON area like PostgreSQL and Oracle has. Is there any plans on more functions in this area? Db2's JSON support is quite basic.
12 months ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Submitted

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted