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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.

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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Enable kerberos/certificate authentication for Cognos content store in z/OS DB2

When building Cognos content store in z/OS DB2, we need to provide id/password on Cognos configuration portal for DB2 connections. We don't have known password for most IDs in z/OS due to security policy and most DB2 applications have supported Ke...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide updated and more detailed documentation of Cognos BI Audit Log tables and columns

Our client has a specific need to track what end users are receiving emailed report results generated out of Cognos. One way to identify these individuals appears to be by querying the email lists that are logged in the Audit Log database “AGENT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

2 axes issue

Cognos will not display a primary Y axis in the foreground.The left Y axis is always shown behind the series of the right Y axis.Enclosed screenshot has details on the same
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send report output via email

Once a report has been run in a portlet (in this case a SharePoint Page Viewer web part) there is no option to be able to send the report output via email. The client would like this functionality to be added to the product (either via a button th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to create a percentage of the single rows instead of a simple total in a active report

It is impossible to create a percentage of the single row instead of a simple total in a active report. In a normal report it is possible to insert a query calculation into a cell but this is not possible to do in an active report. Enable the func...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI and TM1 Integration: New TM1 objects must be directly accessible from Report Studio

The most important TM1 objects must be implemented in a way a long-term TM1 customer would expect it: - Cubes AND a direct import of Cubeviews into the Cognos BI environment - Dimensions
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to leverage saved values in report views in a report booklet

Current product functionality does not allow for the inclusion of multiple report views with different saved prompt values in a report booklet. As confirmed by Report Studio PM:When Merge is selected parameter values that come from the booklet ite...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Echancement to user security for Life Cycle Manager

Hello, Product - Cognos Life Cycle Manager Purpose: Enhancement to user security We currently have Shared Platform within our company supporting 10+ lines of business with over 2800 users. When using LCM(Life Cycle Manager) we experience some issu...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration