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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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Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Externalize performance t...

I have a performance trace running requesting IFCIDS 58 (END), 59 (FETCH), 65(OPEN), 66(CLOSE). I run the following Cobol program: ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. C011MAIN. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 FILLER PIC X(12)...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Report book creation and maintenance

When a report book is created a selection of report should be done and saved on the page "define".In the second tab "Selections", we can set up the different reports.In the third tab "output", you define outputs settings. When we have to reorganiz...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler for extracting reportbook in Excel

During the monthly reporting period, many reportbooks must be generated in Excel (around 50). Each reportbook must be generated in separate folder.At this time, this is done manually reportbook by reportbook. For example, It can be great to use Wi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Limit data items in data tray in Cognos Analytics

We have a need to restrict the amount of information that shows up in the data tray.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

XMLCHANGENAMESPACES function

This RFE proposes an XMLCHANGENAMESPACES function that can be used to create a copy of an XML element node with one or more namespaces being changed. Proposed syntax: XMLCHANGENAMESPACES(XML-Expression, old-namespace-uri--AS--new-namespace-uri)Whe...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SPSS statistics - Problem with mixed Output to word-document

Until version SPSS 15 the output from SPSS to WORD was with format for pictures with "Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF)". The result in WORD was excellent as good as in SPSS. Since version SPSS 16 and later the format ist "PNG". With this format the quali...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

CAF rejection error if we pass the query parameter "ref" to the login URL

When we try to implement authentication using pingfederate , pingfederate will send the form/query parameter call "ref". but since the "Ref" is a reserved word in cognos it rejected by CAF. We need some seeting or enhancement to accept this parame...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration