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


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REPORT,TYPE=STGSP support for cdc remote source

as you know, native cdc gives us an ability to report the staging space details, thus we can easily analyze the commit scope and related unit of works per subscription within a specified period of time unfortunately, we just dont have the same opp...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Seamlessly create a new Report Schedule or Migrate schedules from one namespace to another without asking for Credential Regeneration

It is useful for existing Business-like UPS who has thousands to users who have existing schedules with IBM Directory Server and currently migrating to OIDC for MS Azure. New users have to go through this extra step and existing SDK for Regenerati...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

static SQL with DGTT and REOPT(ALWAYS) should be traced by IFCID 401

We realized that not all static SQLs are captured by DB2 to be put into IFI buffers (IFCID 401) I'm referring to static SQL related to packages bound with REOPT(ALWAYS) and DGTTs statements. For REOPT(ALWAYS) packages, only statements not affec...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Source DB CONNECTION should not be needed in an ETL project if its CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section and run Data Discover process.

In the V2.1.0.2, user should be needed to create source DB CONNECTION in the ETL project even though the source DB CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section without running Data Discovery process. (If Data Dicover process running for i...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Control (Authorized Drill Through)

When creating custom controls like visualizations or data tables it is not possible to perform an out-of-the-box drill-through (authored drill through). Yes, you can use URL parameters to create a psuedo drill-through. However, this is very poor p...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration