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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Misidentification of IMS Segment

This RFE is to improve the identification of graph elements when using IMS CBLTDLI and EXEC DLI calls. In this situation (case TS004447136 Escalation SRR: 31080) BILRTP00.16969 is misidentified and shown in the graph as an IMS database segment.Thi...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Schedule a report without Write capabilities

Is it possible to allow for users to schedule a report, even if Write access has not been specified to the reports in a folder - as the ability to schedule a report is important, but to also have security enabled so that a user cannot make any cha...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delivery Notifications for emails sent out from Cognos Application end

When emails with report outputs are bursted from Cognos application, the email id mentioned under Cognos Configuration is considered as the default sender of those emails in case the report / job is being executed by an user which does not have an...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to change the maxURL lenght parameter in IIS config script

The default setting of the Maximum URL length (bytes) is 8192. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=services-configuring-iis-in-cognos-analytics For some dashboards we need to increase this value to at least 16000 https://www....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

No Run Later when running a job as is previous versions

See Case (TS000143599) DescriptionMorning, In 10.1.1 our users to run a job and have an option to run Later as a one off selection. In Analytics they seem to be able to Run now or to schedule (which they don't want to do). Have we lost the option ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upload picture with upload file feature

use "upload files" feature to upload pictures to display this picture in report.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Last Modified By: on Properties Page

Customer requesting to see 'Last Modified By:' on the Properties page for reports and packages.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Save as Report View" option on prompt page

The various toolbar option at the top right corner of the Cognos Viewer output page can only be utilized for the HTML format type reports. For the Excel and PDF format report as they are directly downloaded or opened without any output Cognos View...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration