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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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Cognos BI - Prevent concurrent sessions in Cognos

Please contact glenda.satuito@accenture.com for this request. How Cognos works is that once a user is authenticated, a CAM object will be created in the content manager. This object is referenced by a CAM Passport passed back to the browser. The C...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Do not save outputs for report in jobs delivered by email

Hello, when we launch a job with several report views inside and select delivery method as "Send a link to the reports by email", we have to select also "Save the reports" otherwise there is an warning message! By doing this the output will be sav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support data entry shortcuts in PAx Reports

PAx has the ability to support Expansions via JSON expressions to define macros for data entry (ex: 5k is translated to 5,000), but these macros are only available for data entry directly in the cube viewer. Request to expand this to all valid dat...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add greek as product language for Cognos Analytics

Re-add greek as a oroduct language. Greek was dropped as a supported product language with Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Platform switch Windows-Linux using OFFLINE database backup image

A platform switch from Windows to Linux (or Linux to Windows), would be much easier if one can use the DB2 backup image itself. Not necessary between two different DB2 versions, and it doesn't have to be an online backup, and of course platforms a...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure different email settings for each tenant (particularly FROM email address)

When configuring email functionality in Cognos Configuration, there is only one configuration possible. For example, if you are setting up email for your company (ACME), you can set up the sending email address as cognos.reporting@acme.com. The pr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom control on saved outputs and when scheduling reports with auto-generated prompts page

Custom control using JS code is working fine when we run report interactively, Same is not working when we schedule the report using batch process .Please let us know how this can be fixed in CA11, we have tested the functionality in 11.0.5 & ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration