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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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Add functionality to manage Notifications for individual users

Users have set Alerts via "Alert me about new versions" on Reports. The only Admin Tool available in the UI is "Do not alert any about new versions" - this will remove all active Alerts.An option is required to remove individual Users from the Ale...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add tool top to Cognos Report Column Header

User Runs Report. Hovers ouse over Column Headings . Able to see more description or screen tip
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Search Attributes/Columns in Workspace Advanced

We utilize Cognos Workspace Advance for Adhoc reporting needs. Often the number of attributes or columns in the Dimensions or Query Subjects are quite high, which makes it difficult for users to lookup the right attribute/column. We would like to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding User to Groups: One place to add a User to Multiple Role/Group at a time

Strange enough that you can add multiple Users to a Role or Group but you can't do the opposite It gets a bit or quite frustrating when you need to repeat the same steps to find Roles/Groups to add a User to
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Reuse Conditional Styles Across Queries

Would like to be able to reuse condiional styles across queries.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Document Enhancement - Reuse Conditional Styles

Please add to current documentation that a single conditional style cannot be used across queries.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration