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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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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...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 6 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...
over 6 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Page Preview's row per page default setting

Product: Cognos Workspace AdvancedActor: customer needing system setting change Description: our customer is asking for changing the default "rows per page" value when working in Page Preview mode Actually this setting is set to 50rows for a curre...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better filter factors - use RI for this

The Db2/LUW optimizer has some algorithms that affect the optimization of queries on that platform based on the fact that RI is involved. But, Db2 for Z can calculate very incorrect filter factors that can be much more correct if Db2 enforced RI w...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration