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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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Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete/Define operation on Vsam file needs to be logged

This RFE is for the VSAM development team.if a vsam file is enabled for replication using LOGREPLICATE, it can be enabled for replication using Classic CDC. if such file is DELETE/DEFINE which is very common for end of day processing, the replicat...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PASS/Websheets: Changing Zero Suppression value should force a REBUILD

Currently when you change the ZeroSupression parameter in a Dynamic Report (TM1RPTROW) it will cause a REFRESH, which is not enough to show/hide empty/non-empty rows. For this you need to manually do a REBUILD. In PAFE changing the ZeroSupression ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PASS/Websheets: better handling of %-inputs

In a websheet that was formated to "Show empty cell on zero values" (in Excel), currently if you input "20" in an empty cell that was formated as a percentage, the value will then show as "2000%". If there already is a value in that cell (i.e. "30...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Possibility of disabling download on data based on confidenciality

There are customers who want their users to be able to access information but to not be able to download the information if it is tagged as confidential.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration