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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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Select multiple periods for copying opening balances

Users have requested the ability to copy forward opening balances for multiple periods.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not break shortcuts when renaming a folder name

The objects are indexed using their search paths, so if the search path breaks when a folder or object in the path changes, then the shortcut link will break.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Task workflow as a notification in the "UI Components Notification" section

We would need the ability to see the user's pending workflow tasks as a notification when the user is logged into IBM OP. It would help the user to immediately see his/her pending workflow.
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Track last used date for maps

We need the ability to see when a map was last used in order to mark them for potential removal from the system.
11 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

See more data about uploaded file

In the properties of an uploaded file, I can see the size of the file, but I would like to see how many ROWS in the uploaded file. If possible, I would also like to see the number of COLUMNS, or anything else gathered on data input :)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to go ‘Down a level' in Workspace Advanced

Looking for an option to go ‘down a level' in Workspace Advanced similar to what is available in Analysis studio. For example to get all children of 2014, I shouldn't have to click each quarter and expand to get the months. If there was a dimens...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Relative Time Members Prior Year QTD / MTD Change and % Growth

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes automatically generates, if chosen, Prior Periods and Prior Periods to Date relative time members. However, currently, only the only Prior Period to Date members are for 'Prior Year to Date' without members for 'Pri...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration