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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Administration

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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...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Openpages CJAP passing email to Cognos

OpenPages use the CJAP for login and it does not pass email address to Cognos. This is resulting User need to manually enter email address when scheduling Cognos report for email delivery.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Disable query hints at report level to avoid override model level or server level governance

There are a few governors that we want to ensure they cannot be overridden at report level. 1. Maximum row retrieved (report level)/Maximum number of retrieved rows (model level) 2. Maximum execution time (report level)/Query execution time limit ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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

A feature for "Retention tags" to establish retention categories and date ranges for Object in the Portal.

A feature that would allow users/admins to set a date limit on reports or any object so say they wanted a report only to be available for 1 week they could set it to be deleted from the portal April 18th lets say...or for a year, April 11th 2024.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Need connector to connect to the splunkbase

Need to upload cognos logs to splunkbase
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

wordpress, drupal, cpanel, etc plugins

With the push to provide easier mechanisms to share Cognos content, I would like IBM to develop plugins for popular website, CRM, and e-commerce providers. The plugin should allow the website owner to define the credentials used, the target conten...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, Content Store, Audit Store and Notification Store databases are hosted on a Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance. Authentication mode is Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication for the databases. As of now Cognos Analytics supports on...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration