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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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Re-add dialog box help as per Cognos 10

In Cognos 10, all dialog boxes had a help link in the top right corner but this is no longer the case in Cognos 11.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add reporting function to analyze report specification

In Report Studio, customer wants to have a report analysis function to generate design overview for report specification which can summarize objects used in Report Studio (prompt, list, filter, expression and so on), such as function in C8.3 tool ...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Enhancement | Add Shared Secret Functionality for Single SignOn with WAS portal as it was supported in 10.2 COgnos BI version

Hi Team Please Add Shared Secret Functionality was supported in 10.2 Cognos BI version and is out of support in cognos analytics 11.X versions. We use Shared Secert method to have single sign on with out WAS portal where other tools work in parall...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable/remove visualizations especially those requiring internet access, specifically Mapbox visualizations

System: Cognos AnalyticsActor: User needing new feature Description: Dashboards are the main feature users want to use with Cognos Analytics. However, the usability of this is hampered by the fact that the Mapbox visualizations require an internet...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mapping of the parameter user name - official documentation by IBM

Request relates to the case TS007570460 from IBM support. The subject matter is the inappropriate mapping of the parameter user name in CP4D, i.e. ambigous mapping of user name. By default the mapping of the user name in CP4D is not equal to the m...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration