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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.

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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration > System. Add Non-peak, Peak Selections choices

When setting tuning parameters via Cognos Administration > System > Set Properties - Configuration | Settings Tab, there is a 'Category' drop down. Add the ability to look at only Non-Peak, or Peak.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inclusion of missing area names for Kuwait

In Cognos version 11.0.12, for the country Kuwait , the list of master records with Area names for Map visualization is not exhaustive. Hence, the area names received from other source systems like SAP, are different from that of Cognos Map. As a ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add macro current year in Default Selection property of Value Prompt object

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fixpack 6 in Report Studio:1. Using Crosstab I can add the following member year 2015 in Row:[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[Year_Hierarchy].[Level_Year]->:[TM].[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[@MEMBER].[2015]2. But if I want to add "current ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Remove popup warning when editing Data Items

Every time I edit a data item in Event Studio, I get a warning that Changing data items can change the behavior of the condition.Please, please remove this popup window!!
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add OK button when Apply mobile configuration

Add OK, Cancel buttons to dialog window when saving mobile Server configuration (Apply mobile configuration).
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show filter name in Cognos Workspace Advanved under Filters -> Edit Filters...

Enhancement of the usability of filters in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced when using pre-defined filters of an Cognos package.When using pre-defined filters in Cognos Workspace Advanced the name of the filter should be displayed under Filters ->...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On dashboard lists visualizations sort nulls at end of list.

When sorting a column on a dashboard list, provide the option to sort null values to the end of the list.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve auto-prompting for Data Modules

Auto-prompts seem to leverage the underlying data type of the table/database. That's fairly short-sighted since numeric types can be used to represent non-metric data. For example the year or the month number of a time table. It's perfectly valid ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release