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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Enhance Auditing capabilities to include changes in access permissions

The current Audit logging does not include changes to access permissions on Cognos objects. We would like changes to access permission on Cognos objects to be included in the Audit logging. The information should include who (what user) changed wh...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 - Scheduled Jobs access issue

ISSUE: Jobs in a secured "scheduled jobs" folder are set to have READ only access. In our validation of the 11.0.7, it was observed that the run option is provided to users with read access to this folder. This allows the user to trigger jobs to run.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Virtual Cube Aggregation pushed to Base Cube

When performing a distinct count in the virtual cubes in the where a filter is applied the distinct count results are performed for the members used in the filter and then aggregated using a sum, rather than filtering the data then performing the ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Last year, Prev Year in Dynamic Cubes

Hi, Can you please add the functinalitiy from Transfomer to create automatically Last Year, prev year month etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automation of 'Update File' functionality

It would be great if you could create a job that auto updates a file I have in Cognos 11.0.5
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Would like to see integration of PowerPlay with Cognos Analytics 11 as in older versions.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

custom Story templates

Currently, we must copy/paste a pre-built Story each time a user wants to develop a Story using the company's standard presentation template. A customized, globally accessible Story template as well as custom slide templates (e.g.: title page, con...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration