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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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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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Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MFA Administration

We need the ability to manage and define MFA policies for cloud-based applications. MFA was recently enabled on all cloud-based applications. We have a need to require end users to be challenged via MFA on a regular basis (daily). Currently, an MF...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disallow ability to run report in background

There is currently no way to explicitly deny a role the ability to run a report in the background. We need roles to have the ability to run as excel, pdf, html but NOT in the background. Currently we can only restrict their ability to 'run as' alt...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to have a Trash/Bin Option/Area inside a Project or Catalog

Having a Bin/Trash Section/Area inside a Project or Catalog can be really helpful. If unfortunately, if any one deletes the Connection or asset’s or any other inside a project or Catalog, we can restore them very quickly without any impact. Real-t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release