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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.

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to modify/remove 'Quick reference' from 11.0.8 home screen

With the the 11.0.8 interface, need to capability to modify (preferred) or to remove the 'quick reference' menu. As delivered it has links to external sites.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Share pins : to be able to create a pin library for certain target groups

Share pins : to be able to create a pin library for certain target groups: you can now set up your own private pin lybrary of interesting components in dashboards and explorations. We would like to have the possibility to setup a shared pin librar...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Merge queries and variables when copying objects between reports

If you copy objects from report A to report B in new version of Cognos, it always creates new assets when the name of queries or variables matching on both reports. We are facing this problem when more than one developer creates the report or when...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

retrieve the list of email recipients that were distributed by one of the job burst's reports.

Currently, retrieving the list of email recipients for each report within a job from the audit database is not feasible. Therefore, we are seeking a modification to the audit database in order to enable this retrieval.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration