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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.

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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Cognos Analytics

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Reporting on Bounced Emails

I would like to be able to receive a notification from Cognos when an emailed report from Cognos Cloud cannot be delivered due to the recipient email address not existing. I'm thinking of situations where an email address was entered incorrectly, ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Management functions over Data Sets

Data Sets are currently stored in the Content Store. Much like what used to exist for My Data Sets, please provide an Admin screen to view and manage Data Sets. Alerts (event studio or other) that will warn an Admin of increases to Data Sets will ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to download Uploaded files

Currently there is option to refresh uploaded file. However we cant download file which is uploaded already. The best way it can be fixed is to have download option against uploaded file like one available for themes now.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module - Import from & Export to Clipboard options like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Data module like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report It would be helpful to edit the Data module in code. As far as Data module is ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide detailed documentation regarding the "Search" feature

The "new and improved" search feature in Cognos Analytics is currently poorly documented.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration