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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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Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

JobScheduler - Option Daylight saving time switch

Dear all, Batchjobs are running with unix time. It would be great to have an option to turn off / on daylight switching time. (connection to unix time is correct, but any export to a human user is expected at the same time per day).
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Visually Identify Fed and Un-Fed Cells with Cell shading

Create a feature to allow developers to turn on cell shading for Fed and Un-Fed cells. It is difficult and cumbersome to determine the level of feeding within a cube. It is difficult to understand how much over-feeding or under-feeding that is occ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add STET Feeder Feature

Create the ability to call out regions of a cube that are designated as to not be fed. With Rule language it is often the case that some Version are Calculated while others are not. Versions that are not calculated, such as archived versions, are ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change element icons within the content store navigation (as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x)

In Congos Analytics 11 it is not possible to change the icon for example of a report or folder as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x. If a user navigates through the Content Store he always see the same icons for reports or folders, it is not pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sub should not go down if new col added at the end is not part of subscription

We have subscription from ORACLE to KAFKA and we are replicating few columns of the table. If new columns are added or dropped or alter at the end of row and those columns were not part of sub, than sub should not be remapped and once datasource/i...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release

Possibility to add URL in Dashboard / Story

Hi,We would like to be able to add clickable URL in Dashboarding tools.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Create DMR (dimension hierarchy) in Data Module

In Framework Manager, you can create a DMR. Can you add this functionality within a data module?
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration