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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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Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Add an option to run a failed query again

After running a set of SQL statements in one single go, the SQL Results view shows a twistie with the success or failure status of each individual statement, and of the statement group as a whole. Quite often -- especially when running DDL -- I ha...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio Create Explicit Joins for Event Condition

In event Studio, when defining an event condition, I would like the ability to explicitly define joins in an event condition using package objects much like we can do in Report Studio. Also, I would like the ability to drop in custom SQL much like...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Datastage 11.7.1.3 SP3 automatic management of kerberos tickets from yarn client

Hello Team, the customer need that the yarn client of datastage 11.7.1.3 sp3 on linux renew the kerberos ticket in total autonomy upon its expiry without creating any disruption due to the destruction of the ticket and its recreation. Thanks, Nicolò.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Search bar in PaFe

A new search bar should be inserted in the PaFe. It is important that the departments can find not only content, but also levels such as month / year, branch or transaction type, etc. Or also hierarchies such as articles.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Recipient name match score needs to be exposed.

With FTM 3.2.9.1 , from logs , I see that, EWS provides Recipient name match score in ValidateRecipientResponse . Example : <ns4:first-name-match-score>49</ns4:first-name-match-score><ns4:last-name-match-score>15</ns4:last-nam...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Configure multiple certificates for the Replication Engine

The Replication Engine for Kafka currently uses a single keystore for the certificates used to encrypt both the connection to its source datastore and the connection to the targeted Schema Registry. Although it is possible to configure multiple ce...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration