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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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Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Synchronization dimensions in different workbook using Applications in Planning Analytics Workspace

Front end issues on IBM PAW interface. Synchronization of dimensions in different workbook using applications in IBM PAW. 1) We would like to submit enhancement request. Synchronization of dimensions in all the BOOKS within one application cannot ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Adding Glossary and Lineage funktionality to Dashboards

Like in Report Studio, a user should be able to access the Business Glossary or lineage for a meassurement directly via context menu. In our case, all our meassurements are documented in Infosphere Government Catalog. Users are used to looking up ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support session parameters as a data security filter on data sources

Our CAP passes row-level security of a user's session to the Cognos application as session parameters. These parameters contain the full string of the where clause as dynamic SQL. While FM Data Security supports this technique, it would be benefic...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

The ability to repoint a view to a different source report

Previous versions have allowed the source report of a view to be amended. This is no longer an option in 11.0.5
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to have a Trash/Bin Option/Area inside a Project or Catalog

Having a Bin/Trash Section/Area inside a Project or Catalog can be really helpful. If unfortunately, if any one deletes the Connection or asset’s or any other inside a project or Catalog, we can restore them very quickly without any impact. Real-t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Allow DB2 to Insert more than 32KB data into a CLOB column

SQL Server Management Studio, Toad for Oracle allow inserts with more than 32 KB column size but DB2 doesn't allow the same and this is a show stopper for few projects to come into DB2 ZoS as data fixes by application team is not possible in produ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Controller web-to allow fixing of historical rate on company journal

Controller web company journal data entry should allow fixing of historical rate like what the Controller Classic is currently providing.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration