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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Add the ability to connect to the IBM Cognos Content Store using Oracle wallet (combined SSO and SSL)

A method to configure SSO for a Oracle DB content manager connection via Oracle wallet is required.Currently only SSL is supported and there is no Oracle option to select in Cognos Configuration when setting up the content store connection that do...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Roadmap for Java Support

To mitigate potential future costs associated with Oracle Java I would like to see official support for open-source Java solutions like Amazon Corretto or OpenJDK
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Password Change Sceen when log into Cognos

Environment: Cognos 10.2.1Authentication: Active DirectoryOperating System: WindowsWebserver: IIS, Windows AuthenticationSSO: Enabled. We have users from US and Canada, Active Directory was setup in US, since we enable SSO and windows Authenticati...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add monitoring/alerting on indexing service

There is no direct option to monitor and alert if index service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos portal doesnt work anymore as well as the user do n...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to start/restart indexing service

We woud like to have option to start index service on content manager. There is no stand by option if this service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Android Push Services to IBM Cognos Mobile

Customers might want to also setup Google Cloud Messaging or Azure Notification Hub currently Mobile only implements Apple Push Network (APN)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Filters to appear above Tabs on tabbed reports

On tabbed reports with in page filters, the filters appear below the tabs making it look weird. Would like the filters to appear above the tab. Would
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase RTModel File Size Limit

Current RTModel size limit is 254mb, when dealing with analytical systems, this is getting a bit tight and results in several forced reorganizations and then framework regens.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Search should be additional for content (all terms "anded")

when searching for content in the Cognos Analytics portal in 11.1.6 the behavior appears to be an "or" search. In other words if I search for A simple report name the search is executed on content as A [or] simple [or] report [or] name. This searc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos reports need date/time

Cognos reports need date/time to be appended while saving to the file system.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration