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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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Administration

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Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future 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

REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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

Hide Namespace in Schedule Directory

While auditing for security processes I discovered that some of our external sources have the ability to see and if possible email internal recipients; this includes some proprietary recipients. I would IBM to create the ability for IBM support pe...
about 2 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...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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