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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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CA 11.0.5 with Siteminder - URL contains invalid characters ('~')

we have to check the possibility to provide the Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 Installation on our Windows Environment (2 tiers - Web and APP/CM). On the Web(IIS 7.5) is Siteminder WebAgent Running. After Configuration we are trying to login and receivin...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create package from TM1 datasource having multiple connection without using FM

We would like to have the option to create a package directly in cognos administration for tm1/cognos planning data source type (without using Framework Manager) when there is several data connections defined for the data source. Today when we are...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos analytic - Hide LDAP login page

We configured Cognos Analytic 11.0.5 to work with IIS (SSO) to login to the application. Everything is working fine and user can access the SSO link: http://[server]/ibmcognos. We require that users use the SSO link to connect. The problem is that...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO for snowflake datasource

We have a feature built using .net to upload a file and filter the data in cognos based on the content in the file, while running the reports. This is used to apply a filter for over 100 records. This feature works based on the user login id. If w...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Schedule a report without Write capabilities

Is it possible to allow for users to schedule a report, even if Write access has not been specified to the reports in a folder - as the ability to schedule a report is important, but to also have security enabled so that a user cannot make any cha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

No Run Later when running a job as is previous versions

See Case (TS000143599) DescriptionMorning, In 10.1.1 our users to run a job and have an option to run Later as a one off selection. In Analytics they seem to be able to Run now or to schedule (which they don't want to do). Have we lost the option ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make the Cognos pop-up "validation" or "running report" contextual to its browser tab area

When validating or running a report and switching to the home screen or to another report the hourglass pop-up message remains in the front persistently. Our expectation is the pop-up message "Validating with report server" remains in the tab area...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect