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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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Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs. Datastage only is allowed sftp and ftp protocols for long time.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages supports SAML SSO with multiple IdPs #cpfield

It would very helpful that OpenPages would support SAML SSO with multiple IdPs. In terms of technical perspective , we understand we can configure this. However , we also know there are some issues like the below. - Cross-track links in Cognos...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

TopCount function loses logic when drilling up

TopCount function is used in Dimensional reporting (ex top 10). With Interactivity set to Yes: drill down works fine but when drilling up, the topcount logic is lost. With Interactivity set to No: drill down works fine and when drilling up, the to...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for webfonts via CSS in globalreportstyles to local browsers for reports

Support for webfonts via CSS in globalreportstyles to local browsers for reports TS001303419PH03961 REGULAR FLANDERS FONTS ARE NOT CONSIDERED USING FIREFOX ESR AND IE11
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Ability to auto upload custom theme and extension

We need the ability to auto upload custom theme and extension instead of performing manual steps.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request for New DataStage Project Role -- DataStage Monitor

Request for a New DataStage Project Role -- "DataStage Monitor". Currently the existing 4 DataStage Project Roles does not cover all the user case criteria that our Team has. GIS Compliance and Internal Bank Policies mandate that DataStage Develop...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists