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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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Multiple periods on Reconciliation Report

Multiple periods on a Reconciliation Report to be made available.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Infographics only working for summary not charts

Infographics only working for summary Visualization and not for charts such as Bar. When we drag any infographics on Summary value, it coverts it to icons according to values. But same doesn't happen when doing for other charts for comparison.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TDF should support SSL/TLS LDAP. (Also known as LDAPS.)

Case: TS014229415 Opened September 2023. Closed as a future requirement (working as designed).
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show item labels for tree map visualization.

To create consistency between visualization chart properties it would make sense to include the same options in a tree map (similar to a pie/bar chart properties) i.e. to include the ability to toggle on and off show value labels. In addition, it ...
almost 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation.Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Datastage supporting generic API's to an external security provider

Background:GDPR is bringing an eminent need to safely secure sensitive (customer-) data. This is bringing new requirements to the tools that have access to this data. DataStage, due to the functional nature of the tool, is requiring extremely high...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities. It would help in maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment. You currently has less to nothing as a tool to see all roles and capibilities. Ca...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration