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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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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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Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Category updates not reflected in Audit History

Currently Item audit history table only keeps changed attributes information, for example old value/new value of attributes. Category mapping information are not captured. This feature is not there in the product. Users update categories in workfl...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Relationship Cardinality Testing / Validation Needs Row Counts

When producing a Data Module and desiring to test and validate defined relationship cardinality, the ability to see row counts is essential. This is available within Framework Manager in order to test / validate relationships and cardinality. It w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exporting Users with EMail ID's

Hi Team, We have a customers who require user Extraction along with email ID's every now and then. So it would be helpful if this feature is added.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration popup in PAfE and PASS

In PA there is a PasswordExpirationDays Parameter. This Parameter triggers a popup 5 days before the password expires in Architect and Perspectives. If the user is using PAfE and PASS there is no popup message/ reminder. Can we get the same/ simil...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Search for Users when creating Schedules

When creating an Email Delivery for a Schedule it is possible to search the Cognos and other custom Namespaces for Users, Groups, and Roles for any results that Contain the search text but the search is Case specific. Please enhance the Search Fil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA AOT support

We have data stage jobs (parallel) jobs, and applications that use Business Objects, that would like to utilize AOTs,Currently, AOTs are qualified by a schema name and a table name. This effectively prevents us deploying AOTs in data stage as the ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lookup with multiple reference links

Lookup Stage with multiple reference link does not mention on which link duplicatates occur.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration