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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 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

IAE integartion with SysDig

Dear Team, We have an Analytics Engine running in our PROD account. This IAE is key to our environment and holds the all the primary jobs being run. Our ask is how can we collect below list of Spark / Yarn metrics, with the help of monitoring tool...
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Planned for future release

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

Enable addition of JVM arguments via Cognos Configuration tool for TLS 1.2 updates

As part of TLS 1.2 set-up, (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/connection-sql-server-fails-when-server-configured-use-tls-12-or-connecting-sql-server-2016), JVM arguments need to be added. Post these changes, the Cognos Configuration tool should be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

URL link for published Microsoft Word document in Cognos Analytics

We published Microsoft Word document into Cognos Analytics using IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office. We would like to create an HTML link to this document but currently unable to do so since this feature does not exist. As a workaround, we have to gi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep Data Sets in Query Server memory

There are times when Data Sets do not deliver desired performance. This is apparent on the first run of the Data Set based dashboards when Data Sets are large. The underlying technology is file-based columnar data store Apache Parquet where files ...
over 4 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...
over 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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Kind of db2iauto for HADR

In the same way db2iauto starts instance once the server is rebooted, the HADR should restart also automatically. Actually, when server is rebooted, the instance is started but the HADR starts to be desynchronized.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Support for <a> tag in Cognos report specification version 15.0

Cognos Analytics does not support the usage of <a> tag within the rich text item. This would be useful to show OpenPages application's data content as some of the data may have hyperlinks embedded in them. If <a> tag is supported, then...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration