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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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.

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Administratively - have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrator should have the ability to create/renew credentials on behalf of any other user. This helps if a user has not logged on or their account was dropped and re-added, helps to assign creds to schedules, or save schedules from cont...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Audit for Schedules

The Cognos Audit package should be able to report on All schedules in Cognos for all users with details and the list of recipients for the report. This is helpful for internal and external audits for security to identify if the report is going to ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Need a way to find list of reports that are written using user-defined sql

We need a way to find a list of reports that are written using user-defined sql.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos Analytics use of the Microsoft graph API to require minimum privileged apis for OIDC integration

Cognos Analytics uses the Microsoft Graph API to resolve group names from their IDs via the following endpoint: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/getByIds Typically, this API requires the Group.Read.All application permission. However, in ce...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow renewal of Cognos internal certificates PRIOR to expiration

Currently, Cognos Analytics only renews its internal certificates for https connections upon expiry. Once certificates are expired, the certificates can be renewed by stopping services, saving config, and then starting up services. If we want to f...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to set userid/password via script

We do not have access to production servers and have to request operators to set the userid/passwords for Cognos CM and RS service. We do not want to manage passwords in clear text.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration