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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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Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Direct entry of "Contribution Version" when layouting reports

When a report in Cognos Controller is being created there is the possibilty to insert the "Contribution Version" either in the row or the column definition. The entry of the "Contribution Version" has to be done via a dropdown menu. There is no di...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Wrap tables

Create a new type of table based on the size or on the time.create table packagevent (.... ) with history based 1 year on event_timestamp / 1Gb. It could be an ITC table. The oldest data / extent are automatically reused when new data is added and...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Optimization profile mimic

add a new option to the explain tool to create an xml document containing the optimization guidelines matching the access path
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

GW Dispatcher URI True Failover

We use Cognos BI and TM1 to provide critical financial reporting and planning to our C level and stock stakeholders. Providing a stable environment is key to Cognos continued success and adoption within the company. However with the BI GW not forw...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report views in Life Cycle manager

It would be very usefull to test report views in Life Cycle Manager, but on this moment report views are not supported.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have Audit Log show when Report is cancled due to the Report Server Execution time limit.

The system has the following configuration setting on the Report Server service: Maximum execution Time for the report service (seconds) = 3600 When reports hit this time limit, the Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT) shows:RSV-SRV-0063 An error occ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

bsub should use pipes for standard file descriptors

Details are in the referenced PMR, but the summary is that since bsub uses sockets instead of files for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR certain types of submissions that access /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr will fail to execute properly when ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration