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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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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
10 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Future consideration

Allow Cognos Analytics use of the Microsoft graph API to require minimum privileged apis for OIDC integration

Cognos Analytics uses the Microsoft Graph API to resolve group names from their IDs via the following endpoint: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/getByIds Typically, this API requires the Group.Read.All application permission. However, in ce...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 8 Future consideration

Having more parameters in API calls

It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
14 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release