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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

PA Workspace: Enhance Trace Cell function

Please add following possibilities to the trace cell feature: Zero suppression must be enabled! Enable Drill Through within trace cell function Possibility to export results Possibility to use the filter criteria of a traced cell into the explora...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages supports SAML SSO with multiple IdPs #cpfield

It would very helpful that OpenPages would support SAML SSO with multiple IdPs. In terms of technical perspective , we understand we can configure this. However , we also know there are some issues like the below. - Cross-track links in Cognos...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Upgrade log4j jar file in DVM JDBC driver

The Scenario : Using the latest DVM JDBC Driver, users issue an import command on Apache Sqoop to do a parquet file conversion. The Problem: The error “java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.logging.log4j.Level org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionCon...
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Feature to scheduled report to export in Cognos Controller

Can we have feature in Cognos Controller to export the data and possible way to scheduled the job to automate this manual export file in Cognos Controller.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set filter - case insensitive

When working with filter set and choosing a filter with caption or attribute. The filter is case sensitive. I would like it to be case insensitive
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists