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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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A feature for "Retention tags" to establish retention categories and date ranges for Object in the Portal.

A feature that would allow users/admins to set a date limit on reports or any object so say they wanted a report only to be available for 1 week they could set it to be deleted from the portal April 18th lets say...or for a year, April 11th 2024.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

DCadmin.bat dynamic cube utility needs to support SSO

dcadmin.bat does not work for environments with SSO..Baxter has a large complicated global multiple dispatcher environment which is now bring on dynamic cubes... administration of many Dynamic cubes is very painful from within Cognos, sometimes im...
about 8 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).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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

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

Subscribe to report - allow users to select monthly, not just day/daily/week

Subscribing is a simple way to setup repeat report output, but Repeat On only has MTWTFSS options. Can it allow similar options like scheduling does? Scheduling is restricted since it's more complicated. Subscribing is perfect for the avg user. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Show format Icons for saved output versions

Please show the output format of saved outputs in the reports again similar to C10 so that users can see what format they will download when clicking on a report
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

The ability to repoint a view to a different source report

Previous versions have allowed the source report of a view to be amended. This is no longer an option in 11.0.5
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration