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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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12.1 New UI Change

On the new home screen if I navigate to a folder and want to do an upload, there is no upload option except to go through the Create option but then I can't navigate to a particular folder, and it seems to assume I want to drop my file in My Conte...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Allow Multiple Sessions of CA in Edge Browser

In IE, it is possible to open multiple sessions of CA, for instance a CA Development env, Test env, and Production env all at the same time. When attempting to do so with Edge, a cookie error results. Not sure if the architecture of Edge will perm...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Expose capability/customization for report delivery options

We would invite to have an option to hide/show per user role/group delivery options when running in background, so that we have option to deactivate local save or deactivate send via email if we need to plus option to change the default selection ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement of TPCIP task when using DDF

When running source and target jobs on different LPARs, we need to use a TCPIP job even when we choose DDF as the connection type. We need that Cloning Tool uses DDF to run queries and commands on objects of the target datasharing without the obli...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option in portal to have folders/objects for Recent, Content, My Content or custom views appear in list view by default (instead of tile view by default)

Coming from release 11.1.7 to 11.2.2 users are more used to a list view for navigating to folders, reports, dashboards, etc. Users are also used to a list view when using the legacy portal to open cubes in Analysis Studio. We would like the option...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration