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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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Open Powerplay reports into Analysis Studio is deprecated between versions 11.1.1 to 11.1.5

Cognos 11.1.1 had the feature where it was opening any powerplay reports into Analysis studio which is not available in Cognos 11.1.5
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to open more than one job simultaneously

A huge benefit of Cognos Analytics is the ability to open more than one report simultaneously. This isn't working for jobs, so it's difficult when you want compare jobs to each other.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to set the selected approval hierarchy in the application

The hierarchy is now always collapsed. I have users that are annoyed with the fact that they always have to expand the workflow nodes to get to where they are to work. Some users are wrong and enter data at higher levels instead of the lowest, bec...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Watson to track covid19 for supplies and for those infected ASAP

I’m from Houma, south Louisiana. Covid19 is shutting down my state and every one is in a panic buying all supplies. I’d like to run automated ads with google partners to keep all the schools,hospitals, and grocery stores updated with the products ...
over 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

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 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Exadata SPSS Modeler 17 Scoring Adapter

This RFE is being submitted on behalf of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). NGA is utilizing an Oracle Exadata 5 appliance running Oracle 12C to support it's data warehousing efforts. The SPSS Modeler Server ver. 17 is executing it...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 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...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MQTT updates for job info

Detail to be provided by Yi Sun.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Directory Security

Under 'Team Content' There are various modules that should be limited to certain groups of people within the organization. Following the directions for version 11.1.5 of Cognos Analytics release ; using specific role to limit folders is a great fe...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration