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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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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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Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC Access Server : Improve support of MS Active Directory in LDAP Authentication Only mode

Many companies use MS ActiveDirectory servers to store their user credentials.This is a widely used infrastructure solution. We want to use IIDR CDC Access Server in LDAP Authentication Only mode by connecting it to our Microsoft ActiveDirectory s...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

Openpages CJAP passing email to Cognos

OpenPages use the CJAP for login and it does not pass email address to Cognos. This is resulting User need to manually enter email address when scheduling Cognos report for email delivery.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

In Cognos Administration, add an additional entry called 'Subscriptions'

In the Administration Console, Status tab, add an additional entry (for example, below Calendars) called 'Subscriptions'. Display the list of reports with subscriptions (like thecalendars).In the properties of a report, provide the following infor...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Add drill-through view to workbench

Please provide the possibility to add a view, which is opened by a Drillthrough (via ReturnViewHandle), to a workbench. It is possible to add such a view, if one is executing a drillthrough in a book. But it not possible to add it as a new tab to ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Python scripts should be minimized as short as R boilerplate statements.

can use Python 3 from extension nodes and custom node dialog builder. However, compared to R, Python has a lot of boilerplate statements. It would be nice if Python could be scripted in the same way as R, with a minimum of boilerplate statements. ...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Provide Support for Office 365 with Cognos applications

Request Office 365 be supported as an export target for BI Server reports and Viewer for Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Analysis for Excel.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration