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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
almost 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
almost 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS

Issue: There are tags which use the before and after pseudo elements and for people who need to turn off CSS, it may cause the web page to not function properly. Ask: Can we remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS?
almost 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Non Unique Button

Non-Unique button, the save icon and dropdown have similar description as another button. This has been populating in all the dashboards. previously the ticket was logged with IBM, IBM Says this is not really considered as bug, if you click the dr...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration