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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.

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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SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

License report does not consider removed users

We currently have the following scenario. The standard Manage > License feature is reporting user licenses. Users removed from AD are removed from the output after running a consistency check task. So far so good.. We have users that can no lon...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add CA integration with Github

We would like to have native cognos analytics integration to github to store all sources/specs (reports/dashboards/..) to implement easily CI/CD. Today we use third party tools to version and deliver but with github integration it would be more na...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration