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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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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

Watch new versions - not available

The capability "Watch new versions" for saved outputs is not available (as it was in C10). The new C11 function "Subscribe" is not an adequate replacement, because the user should not create an own schedule.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove IIS Rewrites from Configuration

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

Missing format in Filter

A list report has been created. Filtered to a numeric field ([paragraph (query)]. [Time]. [Year] = 2013).The filter text has been displayed.The value is displayed with thousands separators.• For the query element [Paragraph (Query)]. [Time]. [Ye...
about 6 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

Snowflake Native Functions in FM

Snowflake database native functions are not available by default in FM installations due to that we are not able to use snowflake-related functions in report authoring, we have to only common functions which are limited sometimes. installation und...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Functionality already exists

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

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

Missing ability to change default options in run as tab and schedule tab

We are missing option to hide/disable/change default options in schedule tab and ran as tab. These can not be modified as of today, in C10 it was possbile to modify those by changing cognos template files. Today they are not part of the interface ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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