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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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systemd unit file for starting symphony during boot

Currently, the symphony start up script is set under /etc/init.d. We expects to have systemd unit file for symphony start up. Esepcally we are upgrading to RHEL8
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQL WITH clause to work with only SELECT unlike other flavors of SQL like T-SQL which operates other DML operations. Just like how WITH simplifi...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Controller AFC is not transferred into FAP properly

When transferring AFC values from Cognos Controller into FAP, figures are not transferred properly and therefore cannot be used in reporting purposes. For example, consolidation data is wrongly calculated within TM1 because each consolidation leve...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Prohibit Concurrent Logins in Business BI (including mobile)

As noted in PMR 81027,442,000, our security function has cited us as having a security issue with the present ability to sign into IBM Cognos BI in multiple sessions at the same time. Per a discussion with IBM security, this is a BI session manage...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow remote query execution inside a TRUSTED CONTEXT

A customer that has some customized "auditing" built on triggers would like to be able to differentiate the real user behind the application server. In theory they could use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to achieve this, either directly or better yet,...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better Debug logging

When debug logging is turned on to measure "logins" the logs fill up with logins, not just the initial user login, but 100's and 100's of "system chatter" logins as PA confirms internally...something about login. Intial user login is important to ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration