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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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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Get path to reports back in job definitions

In CA 11.1.7: After the removal of "Classic view" from the "job definition" interface it is no longer possible to see exactly which report is included in a job. We used to have the /../ -"icon" we could put the mouse over to get the path to the re...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set filter - case insensitive

When working with filter set and choosing a filter with caption or attribute. The filter is case sensitive. I would like it to be case insensitive
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add option to create report view from report shortcut for users

Add the same option for users as in Cognos BI 10.2.2. to create report views from report shortcuts in the Cognos analytics portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration