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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar the same way as when navigating though folders. The names of cognos roles and groups do not appear as soon as they are long, instead we see dots.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select multiple periods for copying opening balances

Users have requested the ability to copy forward opening balances for multiple periods.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Deployment friendly implicit LOB naming

The Db2 feature to implicitly create LOB structures could be very helpfull for us. But we are facing a big problem with the implicitly created objects. Db2 for example names the auxiliary table with an random prefix (as well for LOB tablespace, au...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Customer would like to be able to set a redirect page when session times out.

Customer set a redirect for when the users logs off Cognos. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.2.1.doc/t_customize_logoff.html%23customize_logoff?lang=en When session times-out customer woul...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HA scripts with LSB compliant

We have a built a new HA cluster with redhat pacemaker and trying to create resources with HAScripts provided with the Datastage HAinstallation but the HAScript provided for the WAS & InfoSvrEngine start/stop requires more options such as stat...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Relative Time Members Prior Year QTD / MTD Change and % Growth

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes automatically generates, if chosen, Prior Periods and Prior Periods to Date relative time members. However, currently, only the only Prior Period to Date members are for 'Prior Year to Date' without members for 'Pri...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Better support for opening Analysis Studio in Chrome and Edge browsers - include the launch Analysis Studio icon in the Cognos Viewer when opening in the glass interface.

When using the Chrome and Edge browsers it is not possible to open Analysis Studio from a saved report view using the "native" glass interface. When opening the report view from the Cognos viewer opens the static HTML view of the report and the fi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Match360: Create UI to parameterize feature weightings (and any other code based configurations)

Match algorithm tuning and configuration requires code adjustments to adjust feature weightings that affect the customer record match scoring. Match tuning and configuration had been set as a business activity. The business users should not be goi...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration