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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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FIPS140-2 Bouncy Castle Compliant

In reviewing the security elements for IBM Cognos and it has come to our attention that it uses the "BouncyCastle" java archive, which is NOT validated for FIPS 140-2, which is a DoD security requirement for software encryption tools.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Metrics for this product shoul be provided as regular SMF collection for historical and monitor reasons

While metrics are provided using CDA Tool, it requires the user to activate the data collection and thre is no mechanism for the product to provide a more historial data gathering. Also thre is no way to automatically see trends other than manual ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 2 Delivered

Display Login screen with LPAR before show Db2 ssid

1./ Show the Login screen with User_id, Password and LPARs/sysplexes. - User provide User_Id/Password and specific LPAR_id. - (Please see the same concept of Query Monitor) if a login is successful (a user is authorized at this LPAR), show list of...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Filter Cascading functionality in Product and sub product is expected in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Here we have two Data items such as Product and sub-Product in this it should be as parent and child releaionship for ex if we select DDA product only DDA releated subproducts Should be visible in Prompt
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for mac M1 ARM

Need CPLEX native support for ARM based osx M1/M2 - A lot of developers use mac for development and going through the emulation option is not optimal

Capture Error messages in JavaScript Procs

QMF REXX PMR TS007495199 Correct lack of TSO functionalist enhancement with handling messages: “Ability in a converted REXX proc (to JavaScript) to capture error messages and allow a user to write them to a table for future study”. (enable capturi...
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 4 Delivered

Improve/enhance conditional formatting experience

It would be great if conditional formatting is made easy. It's not an intuitive experience even for some other vendors.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Db2 Federation Enhancement for Mongo DB

Currently MongoDB Server script has only three fields as part of connection string i.e, . hostname/port and Database name. Current: create server SERVER1 type mongodriver version 4.0 wrapper javatest OPTIONS(host 'hostname',port '27017', dbname 't...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Delivered

Enable Drillthroughs from PDF Files opened in Acrobat Reader

For security reasons, our users are not allowed to open PDF files inline in their browser. Instead, these files always opened externally in Acrobat Reader. However, drillthroughs are not possible from there: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lin...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered