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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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Subset Data Module functionality (create w/only uploaded files, for ex)

Provide ability to create data module with EXCEL data source ONLY to Business Authors.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ViewSubsetAssign should update the underlying vue file

ViewSubsetAssign should update the vue file on disk. The reason is on server restart, it uses the vue file to render the view.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g. IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455) , it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do. For ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

PDF output of D3 SVG diagrams

As you know, this library inserts a vector graphic element into the page. And we faced problem when making an output of the report to PDF. We expected that the default PDF output functionality is not limited for d3 visualisations. So if IBM presen...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DMC Notification Center resolution handling

We sometimes have over 1,000 warnings on a server (image 001) and the Notification Center does not handle the volume well. We can only display up to 30 alerts on a page and we can only CLOSE, DELETE or EMAIL them (image 002). We would love to have...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Trouble with setting date format in the Date Prompt (Date Prompt does not have Data Format property) when the Content Language is set to Ukrainian or Ukrainian(Ukraine).

Hello. This is a burning need: we need full support for the Ukrainian language in the IBM Cognos Analytics product. This revision will affect a large number of product users who use the product constantly. We're having trouble with setting dat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Adaption for Setup on Openshift (incl. Helm Chart)

IBM already publishes the DB2 DMC as docker file for hosting with docker. We wrote a simple deployment script for installing the image on Openshift. Currently we experience some problems there and debugging is not easy in this setup. So for easier...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Update Java API to be able to run Cognos reports into Excel 2007 format.

The Java API supports the running of Cognos Reports but the Output Format for the report is limited to the enumeration types documented in the CognosOutputFormat class - which is CSV, PDF, XLWA, HTML, XML. To be able to run a report via the API in...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration