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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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Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding Users/Groups from LDAP

We have a very large LDAP directory. When we are adding users/groups, we connect to the LDAP. We can see the LDAP structure and objects. If a user click on one of the objects like Groups, the query will take a very long time. During that time the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MS SQL SERVER 2017/2019 Replication target/source support

Now is mid of 2019, but the latest MS SQL Server support is version 2016. Customer is upgrading their MS SQL Server to 2017 and above. And found the Queue Replication does not support the new 2017 server. Failed to create control table.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration

Upload/ drop down feature for pictures (screenshots) in RTF textfields to be shown in reports.

Hello, We use the audit module, in order to document findings we would like to add pictures, tables or other more visible graphs for a reader. These findings shall be reported through "Cognos" and visualized in a standard "audit report". Therefore...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation run WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS

Infosphere Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation to run without needing Admin Rights on the windows. Installation with Admin Rights is ok, but the product needs to be able to run WITHOUT Admin Rights. IBM Software RFE Community: View request ...
about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

dataModules Expression variables API

we´re digging into dataModule usage and we´ve found some samples wich, inside dataModule, uses some advanced expressions to define month to date (MTD) calculations over dates. We´d like to find full support about the posibilites of this expression...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

history bottleneck information restore

The client need record the bottleneck information at intervals out of MC into their monitor system.It's very useful for customer If we can store history information of some critical monitor information.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

IBM Unload to support parallelism for LOB Tablespaces

We are trying to unload large LOB tablespaces in a performant manner. Please see PMR 76429 999 866 in relation to this. IBM Unload currently issues misleading messages saying parallelism will be invoked. However this is not the case and the utilit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Request 2 license features

Here are two users. A user : bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp defaultB user: bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp short When featureA has 1 free license in default project, and featureB has 1 free license in short project, this j...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration