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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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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 ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add a server name to the wording "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration"

Each time a server reboots, it sends out an email message with the subject "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration." We have multiple instances of Cognos and it would be nice to know which server is sending out this message. Is there a way to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add a feature in account management to see which user group a user belongs to

I can take a look at the user group to see which user belongs to that group. However, there is no way to see which user group a user belongs to. So you need to contact the user and ask them to take a look at their settings. Please add a feature in...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Maker-Checker Capabilities on User Management

Safer Payments is being used by banks where there are extensive auditing and internal controls on what user profiles are being created and how are they being used. The absence of any authorization capabilities in Safer Payments while creating user...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Openpages CJAP passing email to Cognos

OpenPages use the CJAP for login and it does not pass email address to Cognos. This is resulting User need to manually enter email address when scheduling Cognos report for email delivery.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Set Capability in Teamcontent and on Datasources/Dataservers

In Cognos, I want to set role/group base capability on items in Team Content and on datasources/dataservers. Users have permissions on lots of sources, like datasources/dataservers, datamodules and packages, because users run Cognos reports and da...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Reports not refreshed when a package is updated

After a package has been updated, all associated reports no longer use parameter caching to improve performance. In order to re-enable parameter caching, reports must be resaved manually, otherwise this may result in RSV-PMG-0003 errors. We woul...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Safer Payments should support more than one KMIP server defined for each key.

Need Safer Payments to have more than one KMIP server defined for each key for higher availability.
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Safer Payments should activate the key generated on KMIP server instead of manually activating the key on KMIP server.

We have to activate key created on KMIP servers manually each time before we can actually activate master key change. KMIP standard says it has to be managed by application. Need Safer Payments to activate the key before starting the master key ch...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration