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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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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Missing job step details in my activities and schedules tab for end users

Hello, as end user I dont have anymore information about what is being executed as a step (report) inside a job. When I run a job and go in my activities and schedules in "current" tab, I see only the job running without information how many repor...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report schedule saved parameters in Report Properties

Users are requesting to be able to manually run a schedule. This can be done in Cognos Admin console, but they don't have access to this, and there's no way to grant them access to just the schedules in Cognos Admin console for only their groups s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

download dashboard output in excel

Our user creates Crosstab structure in powerplay, and they would need same flexibility, currently downloading data it in table and the converting it back in crosstab in excel will be a overhead. My concern is why IBM hasn't provided option to down...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to Store Data Connection in Job

We deliver several (20+) data sets to our clients in a multi-tenant environment. These datasets are deployed with demo data. They must copy these to a secured tenant folder in order to update them with their own data. We provide a pre-defined job ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Excel Spreadsheet Tabs when using Microsoft plug-in

When using the Cognos Microsoft plug-in to run a report via Excel, the report output is always to a single tab in the spreadsheet even when the report has pages setup to do tabs. We would like the Excel Spreadsheet to be generated with separate tabs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration