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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Support for <a> tag in Cognos report specification version 15.0

Cognos Analytics does not support the usage of <a> tag within the rich text item. This would be useful to show OpenPages application's data content as some of the data may have hyperlinks embedded in them. If <a> tag is supported, then...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

db2iupgrade and db2ckupgrade should work with external security plugin like Centrify

When having a security plugin like Centrify, to authenticate local and AD users, the commands for upgrade do not work, even if explicitly credentials are provided. It is necessary to remove the Centrify configuration, then upgrade, and finally put...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ragged Hierarchies on MapBox maps.

There are times when geospatial data has multiple levels of detail e.g. WHO reported Covid-19 data on country level in most countries, but in USA, China, Canada and Australia the same data had state level information. It would be great if Cognos A...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 member must stay up during SCA rebuild failure, for reliability

see issue TS002525622: Db2 DS member down during rebuild SCA ABEND=S04F During rolling disaster tests, we noticed that during a SCA rebuild structure failure, the db2 who owns the rebuild also went down. This behaviour seems to contradict with...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Quarter to Date (QTD) Reporting Interval in report writing

Customers frequently request a quarter-to-date (QTD) interval function in report creation. Currently we use the interval of 3 when writing quarterly reports, however this is only useful when running reports on a quarterly period.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

DataStage et TERADATA /TIME ZONE

Notre problème : nous travaillons sur Teradata 14 / 15 et nous utilisons le Temporal Data Nous avons un sérieux problème de typage de données avec les versions DataStage 11.3.1.2 et 11.5. Nos Périodes Teradata sont exprimées en TimeStamp de ...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Read data by sourcing regardless of a local lim

Dear I want to explain the customer's request. Here is an execution server with a lim daemon. On this execution server, the customer wants to send queries to another cluster.(In this case, the LSF_LIM_PORT of both clusters is the same, because it ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PA for Excel visible in the add/remove programs

Have PA for Excel listed in the add/remove programs or appear in the registry or Win32_product.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use of identify for database connections

When connecting to multiples databases with the "same" user, it is necessary to define the same user for each connection. But, when the password is changed for the user, then it is necessary to change the password for each connection. This could b...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Deny permission in "Manage Console" new surface Cognos 11 needed

Within the "old" Administration Console, you can choose a role/group (screenshot old admin console) and then by clicking "properties" in the action pane a dialog "set properties" opens. In this dialog, you choose a group/role to change/set permiss...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration