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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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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Background Image Sourcing

Standard layout images can be sourced from a URL that is either text or the result of a report expression. The report expression option provides quite a bit of functionality in terms of being able to show different images based on simple or comple...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Implement pagination in the HTML reports

Client requirements is to see pagination in HTML report output as highlighted in the attached screenshot(refer to bottom right highlighted section). When the output spans across multiple pages, user should be able to navigate which page they want ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Provide Offline Availability for controller.js and controller-ddmUMWvp.js (Learn Panel / Assist Me Panel) in Cognos Analytics

Description / Background: After installing Cognos Analytics 12.0.4 FP1, the loading time of the Cognos home page is significantly increased. The reason is that the application tries to fetch external JavaScript files (controller.js and controller-...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

In-build OIDC - CJAP feature in Cognos Analytics to Manage the Multiple AD namespaces

For Every major version release of Cognos Analytics, CJAP needs to updated with latest libraries and compiled. Customers feeling this approach being more expensive and time consuming process. Instead of that Customers looking for in-build OIDC - C...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Globally change the value of input customized parameters included in a defined filter

[The description for problem] Customized parameter is not applied all visualizations on Dashboard. When we create a filter with the parameter (i.e. pCountry) under Manage >Customizatio >Parameters on a data module and apply it on a dashboard...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Change Font type and size on map labels

Currently there does not seem to be any way to change the font size or type of labels on maps. The current labels can be resized but that is it. As a result of this, the clarity of the label is not good and difficult to clearly make out. This is e...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Support for Google AlloyDB as Datasource

Support for Google AlloyDB as Datasource - just IBM need to certiify as Postgres is the format here
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration