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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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Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Onclean to display shmem key and master daemon process id before removing them

Currently the onclean command will immediately locate the process id and shmem key and clean/kill it. Example :[informix@localhost ~]$ onclean -konclean: Cleaning up processes and resources for 'local_shm'...*** WARNING: This will terminate IBM In...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Case Transition with MEMO Save

Currently users have to enter memos and then save them and then transition the case to close. It would be helpful to have the memos automatically save when cases are transitioned from one state to another to avoid any lost messages.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Not under consideration

Make New Job... toggleable between Manage and Public

Make the position of "New Job... " toggleable between Pre-R10 and Post-R10 location.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

There is no function to set a seed in the balance node.

We never get same records because there is no function to set a seed in the balance node. It is important to have fixed records while we attempt to build better model.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Print to multiple printers in one schedule

Need the ability to print to multiple printers in one schedule. I can work-around this by creating a report view but that is a lot of extra work when you just want to print to two printers. thank you.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

asntdiff Utility for Other-Vendor Databases that Does Not Require Federation

It is important for customers to be able to validate completeness and consistency of the data replicated by InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) between source and target. The asntdiff utility performs this function. asntdiff only directly access...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to process milliseconds in Time Format

SPSS Modeler does not currently support milliseconds within a time stamp field. This is a commonly used format in our line of business that currently affects 150 users, and growing. The current workaround is to convert the time stamp field int...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration