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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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fix audit log rollover features in Cogconfig

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Too much wasted space between Name and location in the Portal

Notice you cannot change the column width. The location is cut off. I could hover over it but I should not have to do that. Too much wasted space between Name and location.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Read-Only Administration Role

When troubleshooting an issue it is often required to access the System Administration functions to see current activities, system status or to check configuration setting such as routing rules. However, as a System Administrator can also update s...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Future consideration

Improve reliability of re-run functionality

After a server crash, current report runs must be restarted with the re-run functionality with users credentials. So the run once functionality of a schedule does not help, because it uses admin credentials. In some cases the re-run functionality ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted