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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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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

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Root Folder by tenant for Multitenant Installations

Currently you can specify a custom folder for a tenant and it shows on the menu bar, but it is still referenced under Team Content as a sub-folder. We have the scenario where we have our base content that needs to be deployed on a per tenant basis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce.com Data Source Connection Updates

Update for Cognos 10.2.2 and above. Update API version used for Salesforce.com data source connection. 10.2.2 leverages API version 18 which Salesforce has expanded the objects available within the connection in later releases.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SDK - create report view

As an OEM provider, we are integrating some of the Cognos functionality into our product to accommodate consumer users without the need to go to Cognos directly. The Cognos application resides within our iframe. When clicking the 'Create Report Vi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Server to support SAS JDBC

In the list of vendor-support client driver, SAS JDBC is not supported. RHB Group has made Cognos as enterprise business analytics tools, that connect to various data sources as their data strategy for RHB Bank Group. At the moment, the SAS ODCB d...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Accessibility feature - access more menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard

In Dashboards it is not possible to access the (…) menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard. It should be possible to access the menu with the keyboard in order to assist users who have a disability.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration