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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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Sort Order in the Output of Burst Reports

The order of output versions for a burst report is not in sorted order. Users are looking for enhancement as soon as possible since this feature is available in Cognos 10.2.1
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to add URL in Dashboard / Story

Hi,We would like to be able to add clickable URL in Dashboarding tools.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Preconfigure Framework Manager and Transformer for Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated

When customers are onboarded to Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated, customers have the option to download, install and configure Framework Manager and PowerPlay Transformer. The configuration is cumbersome, time consuming and IBM supplies most ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reduce No. of HTTP requests

Cognos Analytics generates much more HTTP requests (comparing with 10.2) . This behavior is causing significant traffic over proxy agent.Optimization would be great-full.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ownership change for many objects in Cognos Analytics on prem

Required is the possibility to change the ownership of many objects(i.e. report) in one run.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to get an entry in audit db when report is failed to send an emails

Hi, we have logging enabled to both file and database configured. we deployed the Audit database and successfully logging to that database. If a report is to be emailed to a user and that email fails, we do not get that entry in the Audit database...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Schedule From Executing if the Current Execution Has Not Completed

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almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted