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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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Enable use of package-based filters employing macros in data modules

There are already several RFEs submitted that request the ability to use package query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards. The purpose of this request is to extend those in two ways. 1. We would like to be able to use query subjects contain...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to copy drill through definition

In current functionality of drill through definition, author needs to repeat the drill through definitions to all the required elements even if the target report and parameters are exactly the same. Authoring interface should provide an option to ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File from Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users refresh of an Uploaded File from Box and OneDrive accounts.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

IBMCloud - Initiate Triggers following Cube Deployment and/or seeing a Flag File

since customer has no visibility on the cube deployment process, customer expects IBMCloud to handle end to end deployment and schedule/job execution process.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PRESENTATION SERVICE SHOWS AN ERROR WHICH IS NOT ONE FOR PRS-PRO-0511 MESSAGE IN THE LOGS

Since Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 the cognosserver.log file shows an error message which is not one : 2019-02-12T07:00:00.079+0100 ERROR Audit.xts [Thread-401] NA Info Success PresentationService PRS-PRO-0511 A partial reinitialization of the XTS proc...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using Pins within Stories

One way to create a story is to use pins - going into a dashboard and pinning a visualization - which then becomes part of "My Pins" within the story. What would be nice is for an administrator to be able to create a Global Pin or denote an existi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage functionality for Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Analytics should have the functionality to present data lineage for packages/data models based on Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Display of Cognos Content from navigation folder as 10.2.2 by type of content

we found a different behavior when you navigate on team content folders. On Cognos BI 10.2.2, the content (inside folders) is order by type and then by name or date, it is easy to see the difference between reports, subfolders, view, dashboard. On...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists