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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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Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ensure that 'bresize' calls ESUB so that we can do policy enforcement, like limit the increase to no more than X tasks or to keep the job from going over Y tasks

Once we re-certify Session Scheduler, we know that the users will 'game the system'.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to create filters for dashboard

Could we add in the ability to filter for ancestors/"grandparents"? For example, If my structure was SOXSubProcess> SOXRisk> SOXControl could we be able to filter for all Controls which fall under a particular SubProcess?
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Optimized Platform Connections: Full support for all functionality incl. WKC, DV

To support the full AI-Lifecycle like described in the "Ladder to AI", the integration of Governance and Metadata in all steps is key. However, when customers using NPS or Db2, and want to take full advantage from the power of these databases duri...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

HADR Standby logarchiving

Hi, HADR standby databases do not archive log files. the recommendation is a shared filesystem or similar. Shared filesystems adds complexity in failure situations. This request is to enable the functionalty of logarchiving on the standby database.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Limit access to stop audit traces

We suggest that audit traces including class 11 can only be stopped be authids authorized to access the Db2 audit policy profile by a z/OS® security product. For compliance reasons (e.g. PCI DSS), we need to be able to document activities perf...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to use complex logic on parental criteria

Ability to tailor grids and dashboard views based on parental logic. This would make the data presented to users tailored and targeted.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration