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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.

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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SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Customizable Tooltips for Enhanced Data Interaction in Reporting Canvas

Introducing advanced, customizable tooltips across various containers—such as lists, crosstabs, and charts—within the reporting canvas. This feature would allow users to display detailed reports or additional data visuals as pop-up overlays when h...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Challenges Integrating IdG Platform with InfoSphere: Metadata Structure Hurdles information server v11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted

Dependency on dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin Users in Administration Tasks: Security Challenges. information server 11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted

Allow Alternate Hierarchies to be used with the Predictive Forecast button

The forecast button does not work when the data source view is using an Alternate Hierarchy.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

MFA for Datastage Connections

We are undergoing a security assessment and per IA-2(1) for privileged access and IA-2(2) for non-privileged users (see below link and attachment for official documentation) we need to implement Multifactor Authentication for Privileged or Non-Pri...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Implement a relying-party backchannel logout URL to allow for Single Signout.

When integrating Cognos elements into a portal, secured against OIDC namespace, it would be helpful if we could employ token-based single-signout from our OIDC provider, rather than having to force the users to log-out manually from Cognos Analyti...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Submitted

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted