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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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SDK Update.

The SDK that ships with Cognos is out of date. An example of this is the cookie UP. This cookie can out in Cognos 11 but it not in the SDK. This is a big problem since the cookie is required to open up the Job screen in 11.2.4 FP 3.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Windows Services should stop all the Cognos Services.

When restarting the Cognos Service all Cognos components are not shutdown. Windows Services should be the control for the environment. This is import for a redistributed since we have to deal with the issues cause by having part of the server stil...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Vertical Bullet Visualization

In the Dashboard tool, I would like to have a vertical Bullet Graph. The actual Bullet Graph seem only offer the possibility to display it horizontally.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Update embeded websphere server for CORS support

The cross origin resource sharing (CORS) cannot be enable in the WebSphere 8.5.5.8 server embedded in Cognos 11. Based on WebSphere site, the CORS are supported on WebSphere version 8.5.5.9.In Cognos 10, it was possible to configure the CORS heade...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: modify email body

In Event Studio, I would like to modify texts and email body when sending an email.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Mode context menu added to extension system

I would like the context menu that pops up when clicking on a report object to be included in the extension system. This should also allow an admin to the individual options as features in people/customization. This would make the UI more consiste...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extend FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior"

Currently the FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior" has two options which are documented here. There should be added a third option: "Always use data item name (if there is no explicit label defined)". The problem is that the list column na...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard, data driven number of charts - repeater like functionality, like exist in report
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration