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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Improper Validation of Session Capabilities

An application is vulnerable to improper validation of session capabilities. Changes regarding the permissions within the application aren’t applied to existing sessions immediately. This can be used by an attacker to regain previous permissions. ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Password Policy configuration for Exports

At the content export in Cognos Administration one can protect the content of the compressed file with a password length of at least 8 characters. As company policies are changing and sometimes more demanding on password policy some configuration ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Uploaded file with frameworkmanager package

Now, when you create an uploaded file and you want to combine it with a framework manager package, you have to create a datamodule. We want to have it directly, a framework manager package with uploaded file without a datamodule.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

.Net Core support with Cognos 11.1.7

Our .Net Application uses cognosdotnet_10_2.dll and cognosdotnetassembly_10_2.dll to communicate to Cognos . We are in the process of upgrading our .Net Application to .Net Core . We need .Net core support with Cognos 11.1.7.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Dock Fields closer to the Sources on a Dashboard

I love the dashboard interface changes in v11.1.6. I especially like having the "Fields" open without having to open the visualization. A suggestion I have is to give users the ability to dock the Fields section closer to the Source section.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration