IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

    I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
    almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

    New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

    A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    E-Mails via REST API instead of SMTP

    We are currently using IBM Cognos Analytics and have configured an SMTP server (including account and password) under Local Configuration > Data Access > Notification in the IBM Cognos Configuration. The SMTP server receives all emails, chec...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    LDAP with SSO combining multiple ID field types #cpfieldcsm #cpfield

    Bank of America uses LDAP with SSO. They were trying to use user search field as mail, but could not. The support case tech SME responded: Anytime an ID is used, you can not combine multiple ids as it will not serve the purpose. By default it uses...
    about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

    Automation for offline backup

    My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

    Datasets - size restriction and size monitoring

    Administrators should be able to set a limit for the size of a data set. Administrator should be able to monitor the sizes of Data sets.
    about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

    Possibility to set userid/password via script

    We do not have access to production servers and have to request operators to set the userid/passwords for Cognos CM and RS service. We do not want to manage passwords in clear text.
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

    Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

    In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

    Sliding window for the monitoring page resource usage

    Currently, monitoring ages do not contain a sliding window for the resources data usage.There is available last 12h, last 24h, last 7 days and "all data available".It would be very useful to be able to search a specific time range.
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

    Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

    Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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