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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Customizable Table Naming in IBM Cognos Dataset Store

I have a suggestion for enhancing the Dataset Store feature in IBM Cognos, which automatically creates a table in DB2 upon uploading a CSV file. Currently, the table names are generated with a pattern that includes a prefix 'Cog' followed by two s...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Timestamp on output file name should show same as server timestamp as it currently show UTC.

When user downloaded scheduled report, Incorrect timestamp shows (GMT timestamp) on saved report name. This is leading to confusion for end users as these reports are used for their timely analysis.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Websphere Application Server Network Deployment support for Cognos 11

Currently Cognos Analytics 11 does not support any Application Server other then the included Websphere Liberty Profile.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release