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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Cognos Analytics LDAP Request behavior to include Sortcontrol value

Currently Cognos does not provide a Sortcontrol value in its LDAP Queries. If OpenLDAP is used with active Server Side Sort Control and no Sortcontrol is set on queried Attributes, Cognos does not receive any Values. Logon is not hampered, but Adm...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide visibility to Subscription Schedules and Executions

Subscription functionality in Cognos Analytics could be a powerful tool to allow users to tailor/schedule reports to fit their needs. However, there is no tool/report/etc. that provides visibility into the Subscriptions (and link to the actual rep...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress option not available for Data module reports

We noticed that suppress option is not available in the report when it is created from data module.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open a URL in a separate tab when pressing and holding CTRL key

There is no convenient way to open a URL in a new browser tab in Cognos 11, for example opening a report in Authoring in a new tab.Pressing and holding CTRL and clicking on a URL is commonly used for opening a URL in a new tab. Not so in Cognos 11...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alcura

Password protect Excel outputs
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to open a dashboard with filter panel collapsed

I would like the ability to open a dashboard with the dashboard filters panel collapsed until the user selects the option to expand the filters panel.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

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