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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.

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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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

Showing sender Full name instead of email address when cognos report is scheduled to email report

Hi, When we scheduled a report and select the option "send by email”, Report is delivered to our inbox with full email address instead of its name, for example if I schedule a report it will come to my inbox with email address AB_CD@ssga.com , o...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Pages does not look same as 10x version

Multi select value prompt is not behaving as expected when there are default values mentioned.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for TLS 1.2 (OpenSSL 1.0.1) to Cognos Gateway Apache module

The Apache module for the Cognos BI gateway (mod2_2_cognos.so) is currently compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8. In order to be run on a web server that supports TLS 1.2, this component needs to be compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1g or above.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Control Schedule Capability on a Report Specific Level

We'd like the ability to control whether a user or users can have schedule capabilities on a report level.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration