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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Extend REST API to import/export Cognos content

We need a possibility to import/export Cognos content via REST API. There should be an interface where we can do the following tasks: Upload Cognos content (zip file) and parametrized import/export Parts of the Manage UI that should be completely ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Include Documents in Archiving

Content archiving is currently only supporting report output versions. Uploaded documents from Cognos for Microsoft Office (ClassID 180) are not picked of the archiving background task and cannot be archived to an external repository like fileshar...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration