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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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audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enhanced selector widget functionality

We want to be able to write MDX code based on dimension members selections that a user has made from a regular dimension widget (the ones that have single click and subsets in them). However, today these selectors naturally do not save the current...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disallow ability to run report in background

There is currently no way to explicitly deny a role the ability to run a report in the background. We need roles to have the ability to run as excel, pdf, html but NOT in the background. Currently we can only restrict their ability to 'run as' alt...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Wildcard Search Functionality - Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)

Could you please look at introducing the traditional wildcard search into the dimension selection editor for PAx, specifically PAx is currently unable to do the (?) wildcard search i.e. single character search. This was achievable in both TM1 Pers...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM CDC Truncate Capture Options

A Truncate Operation in source is not getting captured if the target is file system. We need the Truncate Operation to be captured with as Event ID 9505 (Since it is a DDL operation) and the truncated records to appear at the target as "D" records...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release