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


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Cognos Analytics

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Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customer to implement skinning and corporate fonts according to coporate styleguide

Customer has own fontset since 1990 and is more then interested to use the fonts in the internet facing reporting solutions. Customer has own coporate styleguide with own icons, symbols, colors, spaceing.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Cognos Whitelist function with wildcards for subdomains

The idea is directly related to PMR TS005171959 and the feature request was recommended by the IBM. Currently the Cognos Whitelist function only allows a list of hard coded domain names e.g. "domain1.de, domain2.com, ..." If a user wants to send a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux to supported environments

In State of Ohio we have Oracle appliances and we have been running COGNOS analytics on OEL(Oracle Enterprise Linux) for he last 7 years. it would be good if IBM can add this in the supported environments which avoids the ambiguity for State and i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

GW Dispatcher URI True Failover

We use Cognos BI and TM1 to provide critical financial reporting and planning to our C level and stock stakeholders. Providing a stable environment is key to Cognos continued success and adoption within the company. However with the BI GW not forw...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Package name in the report parameterized URL

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create portal shortcuts to 'Other' Elements

The Analysis Studio package (and other items under the Cognos Analytics 'New->Other' menu option, have been marked for deprecation, but there are still many customers that wish to access this functionality. In previous versions of Cognos, users...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration