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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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SAP HANA via Secure Gateway for CA On Demand

Hi there, I'd like SAP HANA to work like it does for Planning Analytics (SaSS) via Secure Gateway.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties Some query items are not in the map visualization for the drill through. The user wants to set define properties like in a list, so he can drill through on query subjects that are not in the map
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

to have all cookies in cognos analytics support HTTPOnly attribute

Hi, Due to recent tighter security requirement, we would like to have all the cookies used in cognos analytic to support HTTPOnly attribute. Currently not all cookies support it thanks
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration