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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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System Administrator should have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrators current have no ability to renew other users credentials on their behalf. This is very inconvenient as it would otherwise be necessary to always know users' credentials prior to renewing them.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

capability to access backend DB through portal customization

Certain pertinent system information needs to be disseminated to the users when they access the Cognos Portal.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Recover from bad cookies during login process

Refer to case #TS000127886 and TS000083033 When Cognos Analytics encounters a bad cookie (in this case created by SecureAuth ... the cookie name has spaces in it), it acts like it got a good cookie which it was not able to use, and informs the use...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add to the display when you mouse over a data point on a Line Graph on a Dashboard the number of occurrences of the metric that were used to get the summarized value.

We have a Line Graph on a Cognos Analytics Dashboard. The x-axis are Dates We have a metric that falls in one of 3 categories. In the Dashboard UI, I created 4 variables to hold the numbers for each category and 1 for all numbers for all categorie...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Install Documentation - Add on for "system.web/httpRuntime"

Hello,I request an add-on to the install documentation.I woul'd like to expand the point 6 of the following description : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/t_gateway_iis.html. The ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration