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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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Reports Report

There is no way to pull out a report with all reports entered in Controller for both Company and Group Companies.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Still include the Business Entity that is used for filtering options on the object grid

For example you have a business entity named BE1. BE1 has child business entity namely CBE1, CBE2, CBE3. When you use BE1 as Filter Option for the BE grid, you can only see CBE1,2 and 3. There should be an option for the BE1 to be included in the ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

ICAM Authentication in Cognos Analytics

We are switching our authentication from LDAP to ICAM and we are looking to implement ICAM authentication by replacing existing LDAP authentication in IBM Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing OK Button on Passive Modals

Passive modals previously presented an "OK" button to the user to close the message. The "OK" button has been removed and there is no configurable option to add it back.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fuzzy phrase query

The customer requires phrase query using fuzzy character "∼". For instance, "homicides with firearms"∼1.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

14.10 macOS port

Informix 14.10 should available for macOS
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Native SQL Stored Procedure Maintenance Is Invalidating Dependent Packages

For DB2 V10 and V11. When any of following 3 things are done against a NSP (Native SQL Stored Procedure)1. Alter to Activate a version2. Bind Deploy Action(Replace)3. Alter RegenerateAll the packages dependent on the NSP are being invalidated and ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CLI command to export/import DS-objects in XML format

After developing new DataStage objects (or changing them), we have to manually export them in order to get them in XML Format. The only CLI functionality provided is istools, that Exports DS objects as ISX, which is not usable within a Control Ver...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow Logon to JDBC Gateway Console via RACF group instead of shared credentials

Currently the logon to each JGate console is via a single id/pw. These credentials must be shared by the support team which is not a best practice. When team members leave, all passwords must be changed (if that's even possible). If changing the p...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration