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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Cognos Analytics does not suport Google Big Query Data Nested Record Type

Google Big Query supports nested record type .Currently Cognos Analytics has no way of knowing that it is not a VARCHAR, driver will return a RECORD type as a VARCHAR with a string in a JSON format .As a result any nested field with record type re...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Application continuity - Oracle 12c

The Oracle 12.2 version has a feature called 'Application Continuity'. Application Continuity is used to improve the user experience when handling both unplanned outages and planned maintenance. It masks outages from end users and applications by ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Changing the default save directory when saving a report or other object

when a user starts creating a report, he has to choose a package. so far so good.now when he wants to save the report, the default directory that opens to save the file is the directory of the package. That is not what we want.We want as default f...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cancel Running Report for all Users

It should be possible for all users to cancel their Report running in the background. With R10 the functionality to Suspend a running Report was delivered, but we also need the ability to Cancel their running Reports for all users.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to limit concurrent queries per user

We would like to have the advanced option to limit the parallel execution for jobs per user.In case user launches a job with many reports inside and select execution in parallel, this single user can overload the servers by taking all resources. T...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide Namespace in Schedule Directory

While auditing for security processes I discovered that some of our external sources have the ability to see and if possible email internal recipients; this includes some proprietary recipients. I would IBM to create the ability for IBM support pe...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

The ability to set the SameSite flag to cookies

Cookies are missing some of the security flags, which indicates that the can also be sent over unencrypted network connections, accessed by different types of scripts, risk CSRF attacks and being used inappropriate by sub-domains. We discovered th...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill though changes

When I attempt to connect a drill through report to a dashboard, my only choices to pass to the drill through report are values in the dashboard. My drill through report has a prompt for Current, Official Report or Effective date, I would like to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration