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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS ANALYTICS : Synchronization of emails from an LDAP directory under Cognos Analytics for PAW security

Hello, We are in the following versions of Planning Analytics (PAL, PAW, PAX and PASS) in our DEVELOPMENT/RECEPTION/PRODUCTION environment: - PAL 2.0.9.11 - PAW 2.0.73 - PASS 2.0.73 - PAX 2.0.73 We use Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 (CA) only for Plannin...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Alert/notification of crypto keys expiration

Currently there is no way to tell when your Cognos Crypto keys will expire. It takes them expiring and the site not launching and causing errors before you are aware there is an issue.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multilingual Reports

Hi Team, Is there any way to check which all reports use multinational languages? Like I need to get list of all the reports which are using report language variable with multiple languages. I need to check this for around 5000 reports which can b...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log all move copy and delete operations in the Audit database

When multiple MOVE, COPY, or DELETE requests are made at the same time (e.g. multiple reports check marked when a delete request is made), only one of impacted objects is logged in the Audit database. These types of actions against objects (e.g. r...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to return the status of the report/job execution run via trigger.bat

Client would like to have the ability in trigger.bat script to execute a report/job via trigger and return the status of the execution of the the report/job so that such implementation can be used to automate the report/job runs using automated to...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy and paste Prompt page to another report

In the version 11.1.3 is impossible to copy and paste prompt page from one report to another. In the version 10.2.2 is a very useful feature, can you enable in the new version?
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translation of functions and operators as per user preferences language

The report functions were translated according to the installation language in Serie 7It would be great to have the same in Cognos Analytics
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration