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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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Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...

Extend Cognos SDK product documentation by information about SSL configuration

After freshly installing Cognos Analytics a custom java program using the Cognos SDK stopped working (SSL error)The product documentation provided no hints to what the problem could be and how it can be resolved. Neither did it explain the correct...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Unable to connect from IIS Datastage to MDM Connector at secure port 443

Secure port connectivity is necessary
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Have the ability to export the "Audit Trail" and "Compare Revision" features in the Revision Control tab.

Clients can have the ability to export that information outside of the tool for documentation purposes.
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Accessible Prompts

We need all prompt types to be accessible and 508 compliant. We have reports that require a user be able to input a date range, but IBMs documentation indicates the calendar date prompts are not accessible.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted