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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Cancelling the report after using a specified amount of JVM to prevent Query service busy issue

We are facing query services busy failure in our production environment frequently. If there are more number of reports running and for any reason a particular report is consuming more JVM then it is being resulted in report failures due to quer...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLREP Capture and Apply

#1. SQLREP Capture Program problem There is no way to replay a single registration from DB2 log. Currently it is all or nothing when it comes to starting Capture from a synch point. This is a problem because customers want to have the ability for ...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add the possibility to use the import specifications created in Controller Classic

At this moment, import specifications in Controller Web doesn't allow to use some elaborate operation like "IF", temporary fields,... It's a blocking point for a lot customers to use Controller Web.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Have a full IBM supported Planning Analytics - CPLEX (Decision Optimization) API

Today TM1 / Planning analytics customers and partners who add CPLEX / decision optimization on top of PA rely on several routes: Turbointegrator tm1py An IBM contribution https://mediacenter.ibm.com/media/t/1_4jr4kuid Another IBM contribution http...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the SSM paging logic

currently SSM holds page files once they are created and does not release the file handles or shrink the page files until SSM terminates. we think an enhancement is required so that the page files can be either released or actively cleaned up once...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Not under consideration

Federate Email on Cognos Users

When you schedule reports to be delivered by mail you can select the users from OpenPagesRealm, but those users dont have the email configured and customers need to write all the mails manually.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Allow the 'Save as draft' in the new Task Focused UI when creating new object

It is useful for users to create eg issues first as draft as they may not have all required information at the time of creation; they will then complete the missing fields at later stage, but key information is already visible in the application; ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Easier search of Container id based on user name in Jupyter server

We are currently using CA 11.1.5 with Jupyter notebook configured. Cognos is installed in Windows and Jupyter is installed in Linux. At present we have very few users using Jupyter notebook and if any user receive any error in notebook we can easi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

cognos configuration compatbility with tls protocol v2.0

my security team asked to change cognos to only accept tls v2.0 web calls. with guidance from support my team deployed and tested the needed changes in a test environment. upon starting cognos services I found we can still see service shutdown det...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance on multifact query on an informix database

We make Cognos reports on multifacts creating multifact queries with full outer join. To keep the query execution time low, we need absolutely the enhancement/fix be implemented in the next informix fixpack 12.10. It is unacceptable when the compe...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration