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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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Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP

ACM (Advanced Catalog Management) currently supports only FTP. Unfortunately, our customer is disabling FTP protocol organization-wide and pushing all apps to migrate to SFTP. Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP.
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MT Outbound Post Mapper to Support Changing of MT Field Values

The current MT Outbound Post Mapper already has the MT message converted to a blob and so there is no easy way to change an MT field value. The MT Post Mapper should work more like the ISO Post Mappers in the sense that the Post Mapper can add, de...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Support Mapping PACS.008 Group Header Control Sum Field

Enhance the product PACS.008 inbound and outbound mapper to support the mapping of ISO200222's generic PACS.008 /Document/FIToFICstmrCdtTrf/GrpHdr/CtrlSum field. Ideally, all generic group header fields would be supported.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Add Columns as Suppression Options for Lists

Crosstabs provide 4 Suppression Options based on Rows and Columns whereas Lists allow only for Row-based suppression. While Column-based suppression can be achieved in a List by using render variables, this is very time consuming when multiple Col...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Notifications on Report Views

The Notify Me feature is currently allowed in C11 R13 only for report executables. However, in C10 we could allow the users to create their own notifications on report views. This was a very popular feature for slower reports with many views. Plea...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced Prompt Controls

Provide enhanced prompt controls out of box like the one below. 1. Multiselect Dropdown List With Checkboxes 2. SingleSelect Dropdown List with RadioButtons. 3. Advanced and Search and Select prompt with ability to only display seach input box wit...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to disable temp table auditing

Informix row level auditing masks (INRW, DLRW and UPRW) can be used to audit DML operations on application tables. During batch jobs (that use temporary tables extensively) it was noted that Informix is auditing temporary tables unnecessary causin...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAX slice/convert to a new workbook

The current Planning Analytics for Excel model gives 2 options when exporting reports from the task pane, export to this sheet or export to a new sheet. I think it would be useful to be able to export to a new workbook, to mirror how Perspectives ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists