IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

easy to show the SQL query and result

Currently, Cognos can show the SQL statement of the CQM model, but in the case of the DQM model, cannot show the SQL statement and just the MDX statement only. Most customers want the SQL statement. To view the SQL syntax, we must save it as a log...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

The customer want db2 product match the new standard of GB 18030-2022, which will come into effect on August 1, 2023.

The customer will have to match GB 18030-2022 standard.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Sandbox Non-commit feature and sharing of Sandbox

We have come across the business requirement as follows: Request to have these features be added to the Planning Analytics tool. 1. Can we restrict user to do only scenario planning in the sandbox but can't update (commit) the base instance? 2. Is...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Montoring / Altering via SNMP

We miss a feature to send alerting SNMP traps about WSL alerts (see https://content-dsxlocal.mybluemix.net/docs/content/SSAS34_current/local/alerts.html) Currently only mail to administrators works. This is not very well integration into our compa...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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