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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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Possibility to set userid/password via script

We do not have access to production servers and have to request operators to set the userid/passwords for Cognos CM and RS service. We do not want to manage passwords in clear text.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to enforce an end date for a scheduled report or job.

This will allow Administrators to better manage schedules and not have users create schedules that could be in the system for an extended period.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Use generic "From" emails for specific departments

One department within our organization would like emails for only their reports to come from a different email address than the Cognos default, and they do not want emails sent from one person/developer either.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Bulk Apply R/Y/G Score Thresholds to Multiple Items in Cognos Administration

Currently, Cognos Analytics Administrators must manually set Red/Yellow/Green (R/Y/G) score thresholds (such as Success Percentage, Average Response Time, etc.) for each dispatcher, data source, and other monitored items individually. There is no ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enable routing of dashboards based on data modules, the same way as reports do

When responsible for a large multi-server installation consisting of multiple dispatchers, the Cognos Analytics administrator wants control of which servers are being used for processing requests. Currently, routing rules based on data tags can be...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration