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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Ability to Pivot a table that is displayed on a dashboard

Once a table visualization has been added to a dashboard, it would be helpful to have the ability to Pivot it. A table containing only one row, but many columns has the limitation that it truncates the field headings. If it could be listed from to...
6 months ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Submitted

Web service (API) for LDAP user and role management in MDM UI in local groups of MDM

We need an API service (Web service) for user role and access management in by adding LDAP users in MDM WAS local groups in MDM UI.
6 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Submitted

Web Crawl or Connector for Atlassian Confluent

There is no support for web crawler or connector to integrate with Atlassian Confluent.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

All User Prompt Values

We desperately need to know ALL the prompts that are being submitted by users - the Admin interface shows the background processes, but user interactive reports aren't available. I tried RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG=true in hopes of parsing cogipf_paramete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

MDM Connector for CP4D-DataStage

MDM connector will use API calls that will be directly integrated with MDM server resulting in better performance when processing large data volume. Alternate method for MDM connector is to use web service call which involves xml parsing or using ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

With out installing symphony binaries , we can make compute server with copying of entire compute working symphony directory

Hello IBM, we make symphony compute server with out installing ibm symphony binaries with we can copy entire working symphony directory from working compute host. copy bashrc and ssh keys then you can start the compute server with ego service Ex: ...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted