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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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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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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

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

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

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration