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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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Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Session No and Sequence Number to identify message are not available.

In MER, Entry and Repair message, after queue selection, The Message List inside Each Queue:Session No and Sequence Number to identify message are not available. It is very critical requirement for customer.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Not under consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set folder as home page

Unable to set a folder as the home page in Cognos 11. This functionality is something that users often use. It is useful, convenient, time-saving, while accessing folders that we frequently access.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add User Name to XML File For External File Delivery

A Cognos User wants to utilize the external file delivery method in order to deliver reports to their OneDrive account. However, the accompanying XML file that is created along with the report output does not contain that user's name, and therefor...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration