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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.

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Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide option to start pre-start service with preferred resource group

Currently, only standby service supports to start service on preferred resource group. Request to have such option with pre-start service as well as the first time run will always slow with standby service
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

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

An option to select all values on the Multi Valued enumerated fields

In the task view many fields can be the enumerated fields with different dropdown values: Value AValue BValue C...Value Z Instead of selecting the values one by one, the option to select all is preferable. The select option is available in the Cog...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information