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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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RDS on SQL Server support for Cognos Controller

We plan to upgrade Cognos Controller from 10.3 to 10.4.2 as version 10.3 is reaching its EOL. For this upgrade, on Database side we look for option to go with AWS RDS for SQL server. I have logged a case TS005705990 to check if RDS SQL DB is suppo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in Google Cloud Storage Connector Stage

Related to existing idea - "Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage"
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Categorize/Organize Filters for easier access

Currently the dashboard has drastically increased the requirements for more filters. These filters clutter the user's Gridviews with dozens of filters. It would be nice to be able to categorize filters as 'For Grid View' and 'For Admin/Dashboards'.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Names of mandates,submandates, and reqs coming from TRRI feed should be more meaningful

Currently a sample mandate name would look like this: N2337B6702C3811E193E9A4A10117562A By giving it a proper name finding the right mandate would become much easier, Also the context tree maps would become much more useful. This applies to submat...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

PAW - Heatmap Visualization - Display detailed values in legend instead of only MIN/MAX

As now in PAW 2.0.63 in New experience, the heatmap legend is only indicating the min/max values and do not give any further details about the heat graduation values. This does not allow users to estimate easily the gap between each "heat".
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Customisation of reconciliation reports

Cognos should allow customisation of the reconciliation reports ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' and 'Intercompany Balance' reports) to include the space for sign-off, name and designation of the preparer and reviewer/approver, along with the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration