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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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Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Localize attributes

With the Caption attribute it is possible to maintain translations for most objects like cubes, dimensions, elements etc. But is seems not to be possible, to localize attributenames. For example you have a dimension Product. This dimension has...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add a feature to disable the "clean-up" the metadata presentation when loading data of Data server connection

Context : Using imported Teradata views to create data moduleAfter importing the views and display them in a new data module we notice that the name are different from the Teradata Data sourceall the "underscore" character are removed
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow CECD0015E to inform user where error was found

CECD0015E error message is cryptic at best. It does not allow the customer (user) to make any determination as to the cause of the error or the ability to fix the error. In order to currently fix the error, the user MUST contact IBM with JESLOG an...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Support

Customer would like the DB2 Unload and Load Utilities to support Partition by Growth (PBG) tablespaces.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt data in transit to DB

per corporate audit finding connections from application must be encrypted, and connection strings modified to use encryption between application and database.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web - ability to use more than 13 periods for Data Entry forms

Currently, if you try to open a data entry form (in Controller Web) for period 14 or 15, then you get a message “Internal Server Error ... fsid STATUS: 500 ... Unexpected error”. It works OK if you open the same data entry form for period 12 or 13...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

extend the size limit on the security rules

as a developer many "Read" security rules are implemented for the business requirement, and we notice that the limit for the amount of read implementations is reached and is more complex migrate all this rules to a view or object side or Java exte...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Future consideration