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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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Remove IIS Rewrites from Configuration

Please remove IIS rewrite rules as part of the installation.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support "Dynamic Distribution Groups" in Cognos Analytics

Dear, Customer would like to use "Dynamic Distribution Groups" coming from AD for bursting purpose. It is not supported for the moment (see TS001311817).
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent defined files from being deleted during installation

Request for an configurable options of files and folders, that are not deleted during installation or upgrade situation.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Mapbox maps with 1 point on it zoom past that point to max zoomlevel

When a Mapbox map ends up showing only 1 Point (perhaps through active filters), the autozoom of the widget zooms to the max zoom level, a few kilometers west of the Point that should be visible. (at least in SA)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Configurable variable quota designated for datasets per user/group/or role

Currently the allocated size for datasets are the same for everyone. For Powerusers we need to allocate bigger size
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

CA11: Provide filtered icon + dialogs on list reports as in excel or calc

Provide CA11 list reports+editor with a well established filter icon in list column headers and smart filter dialogs respecting filter-option settings from FM modell use and display item.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration