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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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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

Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Add capability to disable content sniffing in MDM Web Applications (Inspector, Web Report, Enterprise Viewer)

MDM v11.6.0.11 provides Inspector, Web Report and Enterprise Viewer which are running on WAS v9.0.5.4. There is no way in MDM Web Applications to set 'X-Content-Type-Options' HTTP header with the value nosniff. This can make the web applications v...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

A better Element management approach in Leaves dimension: Hierarchy

Currently when managing ( deleting and rebuilding) Hierarchies, it's fairly common for a C: Element in an Alt Hierarchy to end up inthe Leaves dimensions as an N: element when the hierarchy is made to go away. This causes programmatic problems/err...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export/ Reimport rules RUX files

While there exists the the ability to load a rule from file iun turbo integrator RuleLoadFromFile(Cube, TextFile); It would be nice to be able to be able to EXPORT a rux/rules file to a text file inthe TI process, this is especially true now we ca...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration