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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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Add 'Time' to Report/object date modified properties

I create roughly 10 reports a day. Sometimes I want to choose a certain version but without the time it is hard to tell which version was the latest to be modified.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAPTCHA mechanism

A captcha mechanism should be implemented in all forms.It is recommended the CAPTCHAs to be validated on the server side. It is necessary to ensure that the CAPTCHA is valid for a single use and is invalidated after its use.Also, the following con...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

OLAP Modelling for Data Modules (Dimensions / Hierarchies / Levels) like Framewormanager

Like in Frameworkmanager we need to define Dimensions, Hierary, Levels in Datamodules. This is because we need to build complex reports, which we can build very fast, with less complexity with Cubes. Dynamic Cubes and Transformer Cubes. We want to...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

License auditing process/utility for PA Workspace & PA for Excel.

At this time, it is not possible to clearly track which user accesses the TM1 data models from PA Workspace(local release 29) & PA for Excel. Due to unavailability of any defined method/procedure, it's unmanageable to audit the count of users(...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics SSO documentation redo

Fix or communicate the proper and complete configuration for Single Sign On and Image browsing in Cognos 11. Especially using the Cognosisapi.dll and what the configuration needs to be to get this to work. There's been ~2800 hits in the CogNoise w...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS security; hide install SYSADM and SYSOPR from DSNZPARM; use RACF instead

In DB2 z/OS, no group and/or userids are more powerful than the Install SYSADM and to no small degree the Install SYSOPR. Yet, these userids and/or groups are easily found by anyone having access to a db2 subsystem and knowing the existance of DSN...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Informix Connection Manager should print full timestamp (%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) in logfile

Informix oncmsm logfile does not print complete timestamp - only %H:%M:%SSo it is difficult to parse the logfile and get a complete timestamp with date+time.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration