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


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Cognos Analytics

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Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to change the default location of saved report in Report Authoring

By default when creating a new report and you select a package. The report is saved inside the package. We want to change the default location globally, for example in my content or not inside the package but other location.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Ability to expand the height of Dashboard Filter

Hi, I would like to suggest adding the feature to expand vertically the dashboard filter in Cognos Analytics to give a different view when filter is beyond the normal horizontal expansion. Regards, Regino Ilano
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

SDK - create report view

As an OEM provider, we are integrating some of the Cognos functionality into our product to accommodate consumer users without the need to go to Cognos directly. The Cognos application resides within our iframe. When clicking the 'Create Report Vi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Uploaded file with frameworkmanager package

Now, when you create an uploaded file and you want to combine it with a framework manager package, you have to create a datamodule. We want to have it directly, a framework manager package with uploaded file without a datamodule.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration