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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

CA REST API - Add recursion option to groups and roles endpoints

Currently, when querying for list of groups or roles in CA REST API, the endpoints only return items at the root level of the namespace or the folder defined. If there are subfolders in the namespace or folder, groups/roles in this subfolders are ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Audit user Group Management Activity

In IBM Cognos Analytics, as an administrator, I am tasked with adding and removing users from various groups based on organizational needs. However, despite having necessary admin rights , there is no visibility of this activity on Cognos Logs. Th...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos Utility tool "CM Tool" should be work with OIDC configuration (for MFA) to recover the Framework Models from Content Store

After Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (OIDC) in Cognos Analytics, Cognos "CM Tool" is not working. Before MFA, our Cognos Analytics is configured with Windows AD authentication and CM tool was worked fine with Winodws AD. After we discuss...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration