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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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Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

REST API: My Content

/api/v1/content/my_content/items leads to only the contents of the My Content folder of the user logged in to the session used in the REST API call. Administrators must be able to manage content across My Content folders for all users. Please prov...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

All User Prompt Values

We desperately need to know ALL the prompts that are being submitted by users - the Admin interface shows the background processes, but user interactive reports aren't available. I tried RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG=true in hopes of parsing cogipf_paramete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Improve the custom banner feature

Consider this scenario... There is a problem with the daily loads or I have developed a cool new report and I want to notify all cognos users of this. The Cognos banner might be a great way to do just that... But my Cognos environment is managed &...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted