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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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Cross-tab prompts in a multi-tab Business Analytics Dashboard.

Ability to have a prompt that will control behavior of objects on different tabs of the same Dashboard. Similar to channel communication functionality in Cognos BI portlets.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Bypass Package BIND/REBIND Locks for EXPLAIN(ONLY)

We have an analysis tool that we use to analyze potential changes in access paths. For timeliness of analysis our need is to use this tool during the business day. The tool uses EXPLAIN(ONLY) as a BIND parameter. Based on system workload, we exper...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PAX TI Process Status

When running TI process from the task pane in PAX no indication is given whether the process finished executing or not. There should be a message box similar to that of action button.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Infosphere CDC to support the remote journal in the same iSeries Lpar

This is Shane from HSBC. We selected IBM Infosphere CDC for real-time data replication from iSerise to Oracle in Linux. Background/Pain-points: Our system in iSeries uses single journal for all database, which associated more than 40K files. Du...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aging of connected accounts to Access Server

When a client forgets to sign out of Access Server and shuts down their session, Access Server keeps them logged in. The only way to clear the session is to restart Access Server. This is difficult in a multi-user environment (as product is design...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

allow QM to EASILY search for SQL that does data changes

This idea belongs to both the ISPF QM interface and the CAE browser interface. I would like some method to use QM to EASILY find SQL that is doing data changes. Sometimes I am using QM to search for SQL that is doing data changes. Why? I am trying...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists