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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Eliminate Cognos Mobile App Single Point of Failure

Re-enable the Cognos Mobile app to communicate with Cognos Analytics through a load balancer (ACE/F5). Reference IBM Case #TS000101959
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source of data is missing within dashboards/stories

When a dashboard is developed and you want to verify that it is pulling back the right data from the right data items/objects - this is impossible to determine. All you have is the data item name - but what happens when that data item name exists ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide status indicator when performing LDAP searches

There are many enhancements to improve the way that Cognos searches through LDAP servers but what would be helpful in the interim would be some sort of status indicator that Cognos is working on the search. Right now it just appears as if the page...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

variable value in file name

a single column-value of a query or the value of a parameter in Report-Studio can be used as part of the output-file-name (Excel, PDF etc.), f.e. extended at the end of the file-name (like burst-function).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Enh] Allow an option to display filters being used inside of a workspace advanced report

When operating in other studios (such as Query Studio or Analysis Studio) any filters that are applied are shown directly within the report When a report gets run for workspace advanced filters that are applied do not get shown would like this fea...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Interactive filtering in the visualization map

Interactive filtering in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

BI 10.2.2 SQL Data Sources change to Other in CA 11

For Data Sources that use Microsoft SQL Server, when a BI 10.2.2 Content Store is upgraded to CA 11, the "Type" of connection is being changed from Microsoft SQL Server (in version 10.2.2) to "Other" (in version CA 11). This occurs with any Data S...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delay

Issue: Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delayDescription:We are using trigger utility to trigger the import and export deployment jobs. We noticed that i) cogserver.log is not populated the complete import...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA Load Balancing

Load Balancing and High availability in Cognos Analytics.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Autoretrieve general disable

We use Cognos Analytics for reporting and analysis. Currently there is a setting in Cognos called 'Automatically populate values list' that needs to be disabled every time a new report is created. We need to be able to generally disable it once an...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration