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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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More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

CPD Service Catalog to add support to manage business partner license information

Business partners' services are listed in the Service Catalog. Once enabled, an administrator needs to apply license info that applies to the service. The administrator also needs to know how much resource units (or other metrics) are entitled and...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering. As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are abl...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0

Support IMS Unload file of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Ability for status views auto-refresh in IBM Cognos Administration

An automatic refresh interval should be configurable to specify the refresh interval of the status pages in IBM Cognos Administration. This applies for Current Activities, Upcoming Activities, Past Activities and Schedules.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > cu

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > currently supported Informix Dynamic Server database server software and CSDK releases Changing this functionality will ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Basic Signon for Internal Use Only

We would like to restrict our Cognos Basic Sign-On page to be available to only internal users (ie. restrict this page to only the internal Network). External users should only be able to login via the Single Sign-On page. We are not able to restr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Page: Add a Checkbox prompt

We have some reports where we are asking users if they want to include some items or not and have to use a value prompt with the values Yes and No. For example, if we provide a report on days, we would ask if they want only the working days with a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable Text on Visualization Titles When Filtered

When two or more widgets are linked in a dashboard, it would be great if the titles on the widgets/visualizations changed with whatever is being filtered. We've found that the only way to achieve anything like this currently is to use something li...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration