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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Missing option to Send report by email from report output

We are missing the option to send the report by email from report output after the report execution (when we have the final html or pdf generated on the screen) like it used to be the case in C10. Like this users could do the right prompting and w...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Including Gateway as Default Installation

When installing Cognos Analytics, always require to choose "Optional Gateway" explicitly, and sometimes even selected, it doesn't really install properly. In some case, we may need to install Informix using Easy Install, which is the only way,...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Google Big Query support for dynamic cubes

We use dynamic cubes running against Vertica database. There is an enterprise initiative to replace Vertica with Google Big Query in cloud. This means our dynamic cubes must be able to run efficiently against Big Query. We have already converted o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Remove Preview as default when editing Data Sets

It is difficult to edit data sets that source large volumes of data because default when editing is to preview the data set. It sometimes takes 30 minutes for our data sets to load data into preview mode before we can start editing our data set.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2019 with CA

Clients are proposing infrastructure upgrades that include updates to their server operating systems. Those using Windows servers want to use Server 2019, which is currently not supported by Cognos Analytics (latest version R11.1.3 at time of writ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

Support sqlnet encryption for content DB using oracle database

Cognos 11.1.1 with content manager data source as oracle database doesn't work when the db server side enables sqlnet encryption. Here is the server side sqlnet setting: SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_SERVER=REQUIRED SQLNET.CRYPTO_CHECKSUM_SERVER=REQUIRE...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Options missing for Query, Report Page and Prompt Page

Run Page , and Manage Report/Prompt Pages and Manage Classes for Report Pages and Prompt Pages are not available if you right click on the Individual Report Pages and Prompt Pages.And If you right click on the individual Query, we are unable to se...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add functionality for Setting a dashboard as Read Only. Being able to set the permissions to edit/delete at a dashboard level.

At the moment the permissions to edit or delete a dashboard need to be done at a user/group level. We need each user to keep its capabilities. We are trying to iframe a dashboard into our application. The problem is that after the user clicks anyw...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support of Informix 14.10 as data source

At the moment, Cognos BI 10.2.2 does not fully support Informix 14.10 as data source, which leads to problems and abortions when running reports: Obviously, Cognos query engine generates SQL code, which cannot be executed within Informix 14.10. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Weighted Average or Percentage KPI Aggregation

If we need to calculate Total Salary Per Employee or Margin % on the Dashboard as measure KPI, currently we provide only Avg on Consolidation, but actually we need a weighted average or calculation after aggregation option while doing the consolid...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

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