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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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Add controls to interactive report running message

As a client, I would like the ability to control what appears when the user sees the pop-up when running a report interactively in the Report Authoring tool. As the report loads the prompt page, it says the report is running and gives the user an ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

replication tool should be able to track the changes happening on the source during the refresh period and then replicate them on to target accurately or handle the conflicts gracefully rather than terminating the whole replication process.

At Goldman, Infosphere CDC is setup in such a way that it starts every day at 2:30 pm ET, refreshes the target table(s)and keeps them in sync from that point. We started seeing issues recently where Infosphere terminates completely saying that the...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

We need "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task received by client" and "SIM PID" info in task_attributes table

I compare the difference between task.soamdb file and task_attributes table. I do notice when I do "soamview task" command, it will retrieve data from task.soamdb file. However, our users want to know "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task re...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Needs more information

Implement pop-up notification for user session inactivity timeouts.

This would be useful for users when they are programing a report and exceed the session inactivity timeout. If a user is spending time programming a report or dashboard and their session times out they will lose their work when the go to save. If ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Create an SMF record for the SQL statements executed via a REST call

Currently SMF records are not cut in DVM for SQL statements executed via a REST call.
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Condtional formatting of report chart axis

In our scenario we have several hundred KPIs measured on scorecards (one report in Cognos). The KPIs can have differing unit types, such as Percent with 2 decimal places, Percent with 4 decimal places, whole numbers, CAD currency, USD currency, et...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to managed Administration password by Wallets and SFTP or FTP process

Many clients are tightening security around how administration passwords and secrets are managed including storage. My client has stringent security protocols as such would like to have the ability to managed passwords via Wallet and SFTP process ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox in Report Studio

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox so it can be dragged into the Query window in order to organize/group queries
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include both STAR JOIN and MERGE DATA in menu

In SPSS version 25 the STAR JOIN function was removed from the menu. STAR JOIN still works, but can not be found anymore in the menu under Data – Merge Files – Add Variables as in previous versions of SPSS. Under Data – Merge Files – Add Variables...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Not under consideration

Improve manage of role members

It is very difficult to manage role members in new web interface. We have role with about 1000 members from AD and loading is really very slow. It is impossible to find member in list. Add new member takes lot of waiting time. Now we can use old A...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration