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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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Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment: - data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

to be able to define drill through on any other package, not only supported on default package

We developed some reports with multiple packages. We are trying to define more than 1 drill through definitions on one report. On this report, the first drill through definition is successfully created after we set the package as default. The seco...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Determine last modification of report specification (xml) by user

Currently it is possible to determine when the report was initially created (Created Date) and when the report or its settings as a whole were changed. The "Modified Date" changes as well when a report output version is being stored or by job exec...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Always Include Edited Report Names in Audit Tables

When auditing is turned on, report names are included in the "COGIPF_RUNREPORT" table of the Audit Database depending on the circumstances of how it is run. The request is that if a report name is known, it should always be included in the audit t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Predefined standard roles for IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise\Express licensing in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

In IBM Planning Analytics there are predefined standard roles "Admin", "DataAdmin" and "SecurityAdmin". In Enterprise and Express licensing there is still the difference between "read and write" and "read only". To get a quick and easy license ove...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAX Context Filter for Dynamic/Custom Report to allow Filtering on multiple members

PAX only allows to filter on one member (for Dynamic and Custom Reports) for each dimension used as a context filter. In exploration we can use 'Allow sum in Context dropdown' feature to filter on multiple Context dimension members, but once we tu...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

MapBox map extensions for report creating

There is no possibility to change MapBox options like:- set the Colour scale / point scale- change the Map presentation- create different layers for the regional analysis- change the point symbol These options are required for a better Map Intelli...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Config setting to disable auto-completion

Create a config setting that will allow users to disable the auto-completion functionality in PAW rules and TI.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add a builtin table function that splits a character string

Db2 12 adds the useful LISTAGG function that aggregates a set of string values into a single string.It would be good to have an inverse: a table function SPLIT that takes a string and a separator, and returns a table of string values.The signature...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration