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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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Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add missing feature to Glass UI: Show number of outputs for a report

In the old Admin Console, when looking at View Report Output Versions, the right pane shows the number of outputs. This is missing in GlassUI and, for bulk reports, is a useful information to have that cannot be found anywhere else.
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

CM-SYS-5157 Content Manager

During Cognos startup, Content Manager can start faster than the dispatcher and temporarily generate CM-SYS-5157 messages, even though the system becomes normal after all components complete startup. These messages appear as real errors and can ca...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Informix latest version of 14.10 and 15.0 on OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)'

Hi Informix Team, We can see at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1079427 , that Informix Server 14.10 and 15.x is not released for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat). The current supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will EOS in June 2027 . Thank you ve...
3 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Modify Default Dropdown Values for New CSV Options

While the newly implemented CSV options for generating custom CSV files are highly appreciated and beneficial for users, we have identified that some of the default dropdown values for the new CSV options are inappropriate and do not align with th...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Differentiate Audit/Server logging for logins through API Keys

Currently, logins through user generated API Keys are recorded as standard user logins within audit/server logging. We'd like to see logins through API Keys differentiated from standard end user logins for increased auditability and visibility.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enable selecting members from another namespace inside Role or Group like it is in Admin console

When you have 2 namespaces and you are logged into just one and you want to remove some users from role, in Manage you cannot select them. This works in Admin console and speeds up the process. When some namespace becomes obsolete you can clean gr...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Have an new TEMP_TABLE_SIZE = [LARGE|SMALL] onconfig and session parameter

It appears that LARGE temp tables are not best practice, as these are slower than SMALL temp tables. It would be nice to avoid application code changes because of this Informix behavior, and force programmers to use CREATE SMALL TEMP TABLE ... All...
21 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted