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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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Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Nulls should display correctly in Frequency Distribution

Currently in a Data Quality, Frequency Distribution for an asset created by legacy COBOL on mainframe, the field may contain spaces or main contain Low Values (Hex 00) character. Currently WKC displays any non-printable character as "Spaces". In t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Allowlist only the HTML tags that wont trigger any execution in the browser

As a part of Pent test,it was observed that IBM Cognos application is vulnerable to Stored-XSS occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a vulnerable web application. The application accepts all type of inputs without validation ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Sender’s rolling 30-day limit information in the payment flow

Can Sender’s rolling 30-day limit information be exposed in the cxcpayment object , so that it can be used in the fraud detection user exit and thereby supplied to fraud analytics team . Currently , there is no straightforward way to retrieve this...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Not under consideration

Decreasing CF memory is slow

While working with PureScale, there may be a need to create room for new DB in the system. Once this happens we need to reconfigure CF memory, while keeping system up and running. We are concerned regarding CF_MEM_SZ , CF_GBP_SZ and CF_DB_MEM_SZ, ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout: If JCC driver is connected to Db2 for z/OS and queries over this connection gets offloaded to the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA), the queries will return incorrout if STOP ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration