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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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Administration

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Ability to enforce an end date for a scheduled report or job.

This will allow Administrators to better manage schedules and not have users create schedules that could be in the system for an extended period.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
10 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Burting Options per role/group/user: Run in parallel, Use query prefetching, Maximum key limit

Those using burst options can unintentionally take up all Cognos resources by enabling running bursted reports in parallel and setting the maximum key limit to 0. Administrators should have the ability to restrict these burst options from being se...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration