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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Column reordering functionality

This is a requirement to give a functionality to the users to reorder the columns in the html report output and ability to download that into excel / pdf versions. This is also one of the requirement being requested by Business on one of the project.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a server name to the wording "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration"

Each time a server reboots, it sends out an email message with the subject "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration." We have multiple instances of Cognos and it would be nice to know which server is sending out this message. Is there a way to ...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Custom Logger Topic

If you have something custom, like a custom java plugin, and we would like to create a custom logger topic, there is no way to configure it on deploy. No api rest or any other way to create the logger except via CA COnsole
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Enhancement Request: Return Empty Result Set for Restricted Parameters in Cognos Reports with Planning Analytics Cube

Background In Cognos Analytics, reports using Planning Analytics (TM1) cubes as a data source fail with an error message when users query parameters they lack access to due to element-level security in the cube. This disrupts the user experience a...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

fix audit log rollover features in Cogconfig

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted