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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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Cognos Analytics

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secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display MSAS Measures folder correctly in list of measures when displayed in Cognos applications

MSAS \ SASS cube Measures folder is displayed in the middle of the list of Measures when the cube is opened in Cognos applications and looks strange, intuitive and should not be ordered this way.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to find all corresponding Cognos models for all packages and reports currently used in Cognos Connection.

Need to find all corresponding Cognos models for all packages and reports currently used in Cognos Connection. Or using another method is acceptable.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics OpenID Pass-through authentication to HANA

Cognos Analytics using OpenID with OKTA for two factor authentication and pass-through authentication to HANA
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos DQM support for Actian Avalanche, Vector and Actian X

Up until the change from CQM to DQM was made our Database Vector was fully certified. Now we are unable to include Cognos as a Supported platform for the Dashboards that all use DQM to connect to the data sources. It is requested thatthe cognos ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My folder limit size

It is good idea to limit my folder size for all users. Many users do not care about the size of their folders and the size of content store is greatly increased. The content store is cluttered and works slower
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration