IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

    According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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...
    about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future 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...
    about 3 years 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...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    almost 2 years 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...
    about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

    Version control built into Cognos Analytics as base functionality

    Version control should be built into Cognos Analytics as base functionality. Not as a 3-rd party addon. Our users of CA expect version control to be an intregrated part of the tool.
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

    Provide options for direct css manipulation in customisations

    Since upgrading from V11.1.7 to V11.2.4 we have encountered an issue where icons rendered in an existing customisation (sidebar menu) are now appearing much smaller than they were prior to the upgrade. Our investigation suggests that this can be o...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

    Required support for SSL dynamic intermediate certificate authority (ICA)

    JPMC transition from using single intermediate certificate authority (ICA) for digital certificate to pool of Dynamic multiple intermediate CA for all internal applications. The last time single intermediate still work is 1st October 2025. I did t...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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