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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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Cognos Analytics

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Support for RDS for Db2 in Cognos Analytics

We are currently using Cognos Analytics in our on-premises system, with Db2 as the DBMS. As we are considering migrating our servers to the cloud, we would like RDS for Db2 to be supported in Cognos Analytics. (As a result of an inquiry to support...
about 16 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Show the borders for the maps regions in 11.1 Visualization

User was using old legacy map manager maps where it cleary shows the borders for the map regions . Now client converted to use 11.1 new map visualization where we are using shape file which has NYC Precincts with borders , we used in mapbox to cre...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

fix audit log rollover features in Cogconfig

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support grant_type "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in JWT auth

We are trying to connect from cognos on-prem to Trino database using JWT authentication via External Namespace. But connection fails because cognos does not support the grant type " grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in ADFS O...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

HTML Hyperlinks in Cognos

We would like to suggest activating back HTML Hyperlinks in Cognos. This is a cruically important feature for feature allowing us interact with users in simple and modern way. The feature of HTML hyperlinks was available in Cognos just a few month...

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted