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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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Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade Bouncy Castle java library for SSL certificate avec with Extension Key Usage Critical

The library Bouncy Castle use into Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 don't support certificats with Extension Key Usage flag as Critical (Ex: TLS Web Authentification).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

CyberArk Integration

Support Cognos Administration teams in the integration of Cognos applications into CyberArk so that Cognos application passwords are managed within CyberArk.Remediate Cognos applications so that application passwords are retrieved from CyberArk. E...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize the Annoucements home page header

We customize a home page to announce activities that occur in Cognos to the team. The “Announcements” home page is sourced from report under “Team content". The report output format is default “HTML”. The “Announcements” home page is created by us...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option in portal to have folders/objects for Recent, Content, My Content or custom views appear in list view by default (instead of tile view by default)

Coming from release 11.1.7 to 11.2.2 users are more used to a list view for navigating to folders, reports, dashboards, etc. Users are also used to a list view when using the legacy portal to open cubes in Analysis Studio. We would like the option...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1

Adding Glossary and Lineage funktionality to Dashboards

Like in Report Studio, a user should be able to access the Business Glossary or lineage for a meassurement directly via context menu. In our case, all our meassurements are documented in Infosphere Government Catalog. Users are used to looking up ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support session parameters as a data security filter on data sources

Our CAP passes row-level security of a user's session to the Cognos application as session parameters. These parameters contain the full string of the where clause as dynamic SQL. While FM Data Security supports this technique, it would be benefic...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration