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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Scheduling Reports built in Controller (extraction in Excel)

Scheduling reports in Excel is the first step in the process of preparing Consolidated Financial Statements for the business leaders. Each business leader receives a Consolidated workbook with multiple tabs (BS, P&L and CF) for the companies, ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DELETE control statement to allow "older than xx" option.

The idea is to allow another option on the delete statement. Currently it accepts Start time and End time. I would like to see a 3rd option of "older than xx", where xx could be 10 days or whatever value is specified. This would allow a scheduled ...

Consistent handling for exportModel(), writeMIPStarts() , etc

The handling where methods like e.g. exportModel() and writeMIPStarts() is not consistent and not intuitive. In case no absolute path is specifies, exportModel() always writes the file parallel to the mod-file. Whereas writeMIPStarts(), while star...
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage enables the Stage to read well formatted flat files without any script support / preformating.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Full Interactivity mode for lists and crosstabs in saved HTML outputs

By default, if you run a report in full interactivity mode, a user can interact with the output in lists, crosstabs and visual data containers. He can filter, sort, group and summarize data in these containers. But if a user schedules the same rep...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Throttle writes during chunk creation

When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

A utility to import MX messages into FTM is wanted.

Idea created : 02 FEB 2022. Today it is possible to : Import FIN messages from an input file or data set and create, for each FIN message, a corresponding IBM Financial Transaction Manager for SWIFT Services message in a target queue. (see l...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Embedded report library default configuration into installation default / config utility

Since the embedded report library should be the main source of system reports from Controller 11.0, please make it the default configuration, or possible to configure in Controller Configuration. For example: Updating the CA server URL in Controll...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered