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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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Report Multiple Data Elelements on a Vizualization Mouse Over

I have a combination chart. I am displaying the Qty of changes per month. I would also like to show the percentage and some other data elements that would describe the item being reported.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

accept new CASE format insted of PMR or ETR on Capture Query Environment panel when executing ADMIN_INFO_SQL from within Data Studio

accept new CASE format instead of PMR or ETR on Capture Query Environment panel when executing ADMIN_INFO_SQL from within Data Studio
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

No popups, in the Cognos mobile app on iPad, in drill-throughs with a single definition

Currently in the version of Cognos Analytic Mobile (Version 11.0.0.7 Build 11.0.0.8.8) during a drill-through with a single definition a popup is displayed to then select the only definition of drill and make it. This choice can, however, be misle...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide or remove user from the MDMCS

I would like to see a soft delete option to user management from visibility in the UI, perhaps add a third button to hide unused and inactive users. For audit purposes, I do not want the user deleted from the database
over 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Allow Db2 SysAdmins to specify explicit numbers of DIR or DATA entries, as an alternative to RATIO

The Challenge The current mechanism for specifying the number of Directory Entries and/or Data Pages in a Group Bufferpool is the RATIO parameter. This worked well enough when memory sizes were small. With Db2 for z/OS bufferpools in the ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt page issue when a user makes a selection on a value prompt

Making a selection in a value prompt on the prompt page causes the page to refresh and the control goes to the top of the page. When using a screen reader the tab key must be used to navigate back to the value prompt.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

An option in Chart Properties in Report Studio that allows charts to autosize

Customer would like to have the percentage option available when resizing charts. In the Size & Overflow option that changes the size of the report the customer would like a percentage option that would make resizing easier and more universal ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists