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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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Open a TM1 session in Perspectives/PAfE through non-defaultNamespace

We are setting up a multi-factor authentication (MFA) to login to TM1. This means in Cognos Analytics we have a namespace from type “ADFS”. Now there are some technical service users who cannot have a second factor. They can only login with 1 fact...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Closing streams

A very useful functionality would be to be able to close streams with a shortcut (usually ctrl + w). Currently I have to right click on each streams then "close the streams" it's not user friendly.For Mac, Windows also.
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Bundle an ODBC driver for Microsoft Access with Information Server

Information Server does not include an ODBC driver for Microsoft Access. There are several problems with using the Microsoft one on windows and there is no driver available on linux.
about 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Tooltip in Cognos Line chart(11.1Viz) is breaking and moving to next line.

We are using Cognos 11.1 R5 version and using Reports. We are using Line chart as a visualisation. Here tooltip in line chart is breaking and moving to next line. This is happening only for last values in the chart. Attached the screenshotMARCH | ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Always log error message if TM1 suddenly crashes

Our TM1 server sometimes crashes without any additional information that can be found in the log file. The service just stops working which is visible in the windows event log. But in the TM1 server log no information is available (not which error...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Native SQL Stored Procedure Maintenance Is Invalidating Dependent Packages

For DB2 V10 and V11. When any of following 3 things are done against a NSP (Native SQL Stored Procedure)1. Alter to Activate a version2. Bind Deploy Action(Replace)3. Alter RegenerateAll the packages dependent on the NSP are being invalidated and ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos 10.2.2/Analytics Domain Cookie Setting - need to add multiple domains

PMR 50291,227,000 Domain Cookie Setting - need to add multiple domains: We are using Cognos 10.2.2 on Windows Server 2012, We have business need to have external internet users to connect using external url : biServices.pncie.com and internal user...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration