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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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Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Index on RTS versioned History tables

In our environment, we retain the RTS history data for 1 year. Tables are going to grow large due to the busy environment we have.. We would need secondary indexes on these tables. Right now there is none. Since its a years data to analyze the rat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Callbacks from CP for .Net languages like C#

Callbacks are available from CP using C++ or Java, but not if using the API from C# (or any .Net language). This seems to be very strange as the internal structures must be there inside the CP libraries etc in order to support the callbacks from C...
about 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to DROP PROCEDURE / DROP FUNCTION syntax

Currently, the DROP PROCEDURE statement requires that the all of the procedure parameters necessary to completely identify the specific procedure. This is important due to Informix supporting polymorphic procedures, and is generally a good thing. ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

On restore or chunk addition allow automatic creation of files in certain folders.

On restore or chunk creation allow automatic creation of cooked files. Add an onconfig parameter which contains a list of folders where automatic cooked chunk creation is allowed. Cooked chunk files can be automatically created in this folder of a...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

IIDR to run on zIIP

Allow IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Change Data Capture to do more work on a z Integrated Information Processor as opposed to the general processor.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enable Notifications for Views

Users currently use watchlists to be notified when new report output is available. Watchlists are no longer and have been replaced with Notifications. Notifications do not work with Report Views. We did some testing in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 and ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration