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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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 federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Ability for Cognos to integrate with Analytics Content Hub

We would like to have the ability for Cognos Analytics in CP4D to integrate with Analytics Content Hub. ACH has the ability to integrate with stand alone CA but not CA in CP4D. We would like to have the integration with CP4D and the Cognos Service.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

when editing connection you can activate the option to initialize HADR

When editing the connection, the option to initialize HADR will appear on the screen. Today this option is only possible for new connections or databases. However, every old database can become a HADR.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Ask Tableau to support connectivity with Netezza Performance Server for AWS

- Why is it useful?If Tableau supports connectivity with Netezza Performance Server (NPS) for AWS, Tableau users can connect to NPS by using Tableau connector. According to below Tableau document, NPS is not supported. PDA (old Netezza) is support...
about 1 month ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Drillthrough component between Powerplay and Report Studio 64bit

Hello, we use Powerplay and drillthrough reports in Report Studio. We need to install a 32bit dispatcher that powerplay drillthrough function is working. The reason is the component of drillthrough definition which requires a 32 bit report service...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

add lineage feature to find dependent reports for a data module

my business team stakeholders asked to provide an audit of dependent reports on data modules within the production portal the audit was asked for to understand if the reports which are running on schedule can be assigned to a different user or sim...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted