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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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Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CANCEL THREAD Enhancement - to cancel threads by specifying a SCOPE(ssid)

This will help in cancelling of threads running in any of the LPARs in a Parallel Sysplex. Currently, DISPLAY THREAD supports SCOPE(GROUP). So, this would be a good feature to have. These can be very useful during IPLs when some thread is holding ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Embed Data In Reports Without Special Coding (i.e. Active Reports)

We would like the ability to embed data In reports WITHOUT having to do special/different/extra development. Right now, in order to do this, you need to use a completely different design paradigm (active reports). Then, if you change your mind and...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Drill Through to URL/CA Reports

Planning Analytics needs to support more drill through options outside of Turbo Integrator. For example users should be able to drill through to a report rendered in Cognos Analytics. This could be accomplished by supporting a URL basesd drill thr...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to easily see all filters within framework model in framework manager

I would like to have the ability to see filters that have been defined within a framework model instead of having to go into each query subject. I would like to have the option to view all filters that are currently defined within the model and wh...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ReCalc functionality (as in Perspectives) need to available in PAX

TM1 ReCalc functionality on Perspectives should be available on PAX as well, which is not the case currently. As Perspectives / CAFE would be replaced with PAX now or sooner, all Macro functionalities are expected to be work on Planning analytics ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration