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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Pivotal Greenplum Median function executed locally in Cognos

Pivotal Greenplum Median function executed locally in Cognos
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing the default save directory when saving a report or other object

when a user starts creating a report, he has to choose a package. so far so good.now when he wants to save the report, the default directory that opens to save the file is the directory of the package. That is not what we want.We want as default f...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove "Analyst" read/write permissions in "Shared" menu on PAW

In the "Shared menu dashboard" of Planning Anlaytics Workspace PAW (On Premise). We would like to avoid that an analyst creates or deletes folders or books or reports in the "shared" dashboard, We would like to avoid an analyst to see all the fold...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add GROUP BY and DISTINCT to HPU RFE 118682

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=118682 The request is to allow HPU tool to support GROUP BY and DISTINCT SQL statement (be part of the hpu syntax diagram ) so that message INZU063I UNSUPPORTED SELECT wont o...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folders in Cube Views

Add the functionality of creating public folders in cube views to avoid clutter in the cube view root, categorize view types, and enable more collaboration. The current practice of using application folders enables view sharing and view categoriza...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Format Axis Min Max

We request the ability to change the min and max boundaries of each axis.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release