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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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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

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Non Unique Button

Non-Unique button, the save icon and dropdown have similar description as another button. This has been populating in all the dashboards. previously the ticket was logged with IBM, IBM Says this is not really considered as bug, if you click the dr...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration