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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add SCIM support for CA

SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_for_Cross-domain_Identity_Management) An integ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customize the shape of plots On Maps

Hey Team! There is requirement for cognos maps on dashboard to customize shape of plots/symbols. The issue is that when latitude and longitude are fed onto the fields on the dashboard, cognos maps automatically plots the default symbol, a circle, ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Upgrade PDF version of generated reports

Cognos Analytics generates PDF version 1.4 by default. Customer is trying to digitally sign this PDF using a third party application and it requires PDF version to be at least 1.5 or higher. Is there any way to upgrade PDF version of reports gener...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Option to disable merging CSS classes on report elements

While merging CSS styles makes sense, there are many times where having distinct class names on the elements allows for more advanced reports. For example, I could have a class that has no styles, but use that as a reference point for JavaScript c...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration