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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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Cognos Analytics

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Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Audit

Cognos Audit "Administration Console"
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a spe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Plot Mapbox maps using Eastings/Northings

We would like to be able to use Eastings and Northings to plot points on Mapbox maps.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration

View Job Step Status As In Cognos 10

This is the same issue as: https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CA-I-2931 In Cognos 10.2, users had an option to "View the details ... after closing this dialog" when running objects (i.e. reports, views, jobs) in the background. This was es...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Support public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) managed database services for content/audit stores

Currently, if we opt to use one of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) to host Cognos Analytics Local, we are required to provision a self-managed database host and database in order to host the Cognos Analytics content stores. This limits ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Import/Export Data Module json specification in Data Module editor

For some use cases it would be beneficial to be able to import and export the Data Module specification not only via REST API but within the Data Module editor: professional modelers can generate their Data Module specifications in external tools,...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration