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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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smaller / sizable font in the portal

A smaller font in the portal would make it easier to get an overview while navigating
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

API functionality for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

I've been told by our IBM rep that for Cognos on Cloud there is no direct connection through a Java API. It would have to be uploaded as an xls. file into Cognos on Cloud. This request is to make that API functionality available on Cognos Analytic...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

ENH: Add ability to save the state of frozen column/row headers between report runs

When running an HTML report in Cognos viewer there is an option in the context menu to freeze the row or column headings. These options need to be selected every time a report is run. For reports where the user always has to scroll a lot and consi...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

API should be updated above API 20 in Cognos 10.2.1 to get Salesforce Login Histroy

We established a connection between IBM Cognos 10.2.1 and salesforce (SFDC Sandbox.) -We see all objects when we import the tables in Framework manager but not the LoginHistory object (Table) via the IBM Cognos/SFDC connection. But i am able to vi...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Saving a package based data module takes minutes

When trying to create a data module based on a big FM package it takes 2-3 minutes for the data module to save. This should be improved so that saving the data module is faster. Support assumed that it could be the smarts service that takes a long...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Websites connections

I like to have a connector who can read csv's. json's, etc. form a web page.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Auditing license mapping for non connected users

As soon as the cognos analytics licenses are required for all autorized users even though he has never used the product, why the "Manage Licenses" does not allow viewing the license mapping for all users ? (active or potential ).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered