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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.

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


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Members in the data tree (hide/disable)

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos 11.1.7 and we would like to control "Members in the data tree" for Dashboards (with Package as Data Source) to have an ability to decrease the load on our server (in case we will have performance issues ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

CA11: Provide filtered icon + dialogs on list reports as in excel or calc

Provide CA11 list reports+editor with a well established filter icon in list column headers and smart filter dialogs respecting filter-option settings from FM modell use and display item.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create SQL reference manual for InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS

My customer is developing an application that issues SQL to DB2 using the CLASSIC FEDERATION.The available SQL was answered with DB2 V4 equivalent on the PMR, but LOCK was not available.Application development is delayed and the customer is strong...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted backup information in DB_HISTORY table

Currently there is no information on backup file is encrypted or not in DB_HISTORY table. Would like to see column indicating db backup entry is of encrypted db and backup file is indeed encrypted.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Security/Capability on global parameters

We would like to use global parameters as a place where users and advanced users can define and reuse parameters (especially default parameters).To be able to use global parameters in this way we need to be able to separate security/capabilities o...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creating new batch service

Hi Team, We would like to have 2 batch services set up for Cognos Controller on Cloud to run the 2 consolidations together which we already have a set up in on-prem environment and we would like to have the same on IBM cloud.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Exporting Users with EMail ID's

Hi Team, We have a customers who require user Extraction along with email ID's every now and then. So it would be helpful if this feature is added.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration popup in PAfE and PASS

In PA there is a PasswordExpirationDays Parameter. This Parameter triggers a popup 5 days before the password expires in Architect and Perspectives. If the user is using PAfE and PASS there is no popup message/ reminder. Can we get the same/ simil...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase supported ADMIN_MODE_USERS by moving list from onconfig to table

Parameter ADMIN_MODE_USERS handy during migrations. the ability to make the database available for a subset of users is great for post migration validation. However the length of the field (127 bytes) is a limitation that ends up being somewhat mi...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Task-based Workflow in PAW

Task-based workflow in PAW: - Administrations can create tasks (such as enter product volumes, set pricing, enter new headcount, plan expenses, etc).- Tasks would have a description and instructions- Tasks can be assigned to users and associated w...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration