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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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Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

URL Integration API to integrate Cognos Analytics 11 User Interface into embedded applications

Need the ability to integrate Cognos Analytics user interface into embedded applications. Similar to the capability we had with Cognos 10.2.2 to embed reports and components. Included must be the ability to pass parameters and pass logon/logoff na...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[TFUI] Configure default sorting in Grid Views

Currently in a Grid View, the object instances are sorted by default by the Name field in an ascending order. In an embedded Grid, the default sorting can be configured to meet ones needs. This is not possible in a Grid View. Users have to apply t...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

cdr migrate should allow code-set migration

If a customer needs to change the locale of a database, wants to standardize to a common locale etc then the only option is to unload the data and reload. On small databases this might be possible but for 99% of the real systems this is impractica...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to bring your own model to watsonx.ai

A large Federal customer requires the ability to bring their own models to the watsonx platform. The customer builds their own in-house models and their ability to deploy production watsonx.ai use cases will depend on their ability to leverage the...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Functionality already exists

Relative Aliases for Forecasting

We are using the Basline Forecast to produce a 17 week production forecast. Every 3 weeks we re-forecast the 17 week period after reloading historical actuals. To minimize the maintenance each time we run the forecast, we have aliases on our week ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Direct URL or Navigation for Baseline Forecast

We are trying to create either a navigation action button or a direct link to open a Baseline Forecast. There are no options on an action to navigate to a baseline forecast. When we use the hyperlink option and use the URL of the baseline forecast...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review