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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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Cognos Analytics

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When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Missing search capability when adding a source to report

when adding a source to a report like package or data module, the user need to select the source from the my content or team content folder by browsing the content folder structure. Sometimes this folder structure could be very large with many sub...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CIS benchmark guide for Cognos Analytics

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our internal security teams expect all product owners to submit CIS (security hardening) guidelines document. I am able to find for DB2 at https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ibm_db2 But I can't find any for...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration