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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Cognos Administration - Bulk Resubmit via Past Activities

Add ability to flag Failed requests and Past Activities and Resubmit en masse.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to Monitor Current and Past Activities without Admin Role

We are looking for a way to allow developers in our Non-Prod Cognos environments to have access to the Status tab of the Administration tool so that they can monitor their reports/jobs. We need a way to grant a capability to a Non-Admin role that ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos administration show on which server a (batch)report is executed when load balancing round-robin

Multitier environment in Cognos administration show on which server a batchreport is executed when load balancing round robin. The PI42832 55069,300,624 NO SPREADING WITH ROUND ROBIN LOAD BALANCING MODEWHEN RUNNING REPORTS IN BATCH MODEis about an...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pick created Dashboard visualizations in read-only mode

Dashboard is created with viz and the author also includes other viz not shown on the canvas. This dashboard is published to user base. User base (non-edit mode) can then remove. resize viz and a select the other viz associated with the dashboard....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Java 8 for Cognos 10.2.2

Client would like to know if and when Cognos 10.2.2 would start supporting Oracle Java 8
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing search capability when adding a source to report

when adding a source to a report like package or data module, the user need to select the source from the my content or team content folder by browsing the content folder structure. Sometimes this folder structure could be very large with many sub...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding newly added data sources to data modules automatically

We're developing a data collaboration platform. New data sources in various data formats such as CSV, database table or ESRI map will be uploaded to the platform. In this context, data modules should update itself automatically.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow session logging to use remote log server settings

While a remote log server can be used to redirect logging into cogaudit.log to a dedicated server whitin a distributed environment, this is currently not possible for session logging. Also session logging should take care of the remote log server ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration