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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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Ability to Single Select Value Filter/Prompt Drop Down List in Dasboards

want to have a dashboard filter like we can do in reporting, where the user can select only one value in a drop down list prompt. This capability does not exist currently in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Auto scale of Report Output on all supported devices (responsive design in C11)

Create reports should be optimally displayed on each supported end device so that the user does not have to scroll on the end device.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Provisioning Environment for PA on Cloud

We need a mechanism to enable user provisioning that does not rely on a single primary environment, as we have multiple user communities within our organization who should not have access to the other production environments. Additionally, we requ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable DATABASE_MEMORY change on WRITE SUSPEND database

We are using db2relocatedb to deploy test, dev, preprod environments from production images (disc snapshots). This happens multiple times a week (talking about multiple hundred databases). Most databases have DATABASE_MEMORY set to AUTOMATIC. Relo...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Dashboard should mask data (Data protection rule)

Dashboards should be mask data based on the data protection rule, Problem: Even if certain data is masked in Preview or Refinery in the analytics project, Dashboard allows all collaborator to show its data. According the manual below, in the Dashb...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Future consideration

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add ability to manage used sender mail address of scheduled mail report output

In our company reports are being scheduled and the output can be sent to multiple mail recipients. Report builders are mostly part of a team and are used to communicate to the organisation as a team by using a team mail address. But, the used send...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

LDAP with SSO combining multiple ID field types #cpfieldcsm #cpfield

Bank of America uses LDAP with SSO. They were trying to use user search field as mail, but could not. The support case tech SME responded: Anytime an ID is used, you can not combine multiple ids as it will not serve the purpose. By default it uses...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration