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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy users files from Team Content to the users My Content folder

We would like to to be able to copy files from Team Content to a users My Content folder, this was available in Cognos 10. The only option now is to copy from team content to another folder in team content or my own my content folder. Reference ca...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Filters of queries created in Query Studio that are migrated under Report

We are migrating our users from Query studio C10.2.1 to report C11 R11 Filters of Query Studio are migrated under Report as "filterExpression", That could be improved for users because filterExpression do not appear dynamically in the filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integration of Dynamic Cubes to CloudPaks

we use very often dynamic cubes as OLAP modelling engine. Our transformer cubes models are dynamic cubes, now. We want to migrate to cloud services, but as far as i know, dynamic cubes aren't supported here. Is there a way to enable / embed dynam...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Restart Time need to be reduced

Transactional Environment where Cognos integrated with Application have very less downtime. Cognos Analytics takes 10-13 mins for each dispatcher to restart.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On a Dashboard be able to change the title of item added to a visualization. Plus Column heading size/wrap

In a report report you are able to change the column heading, i.e. Sex_Descr to Sex or Gender. Want to be able to do the same thing on a dashboard. Or Sex_Code to Gender_Code. Users sometimes want to change the title of a field and since you can't...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Saved Report Output to Microsoft OneDrive

My full content store export (backup) is over 70GB because my Cognos users save tons of report output...which they claim they need. I need to drastically reduce they size of my content store database and would like to offload they saved output to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

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...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration