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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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Cognos Analytics

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Make Cognos compatible with Open JDK

Since Oracle got bought out many companies are moving away from Oracle JDK to Open JDK. So IBM should make cognos compatible with open jdk.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced Profile Parameter Support

We need to be able to pass a profile to Workspace Advanced through a parameter on the URL query string. This would select the correct profile for a user with multiple profiles without prompting the user to choose.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add new Visialization and ways to modify a visualization for Dashboards and Reports

Competetiros and even Excel can support semicircle visualizations. UPS got a Business requirement to implement that in one of our dashboards but unable to deliver
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add "Lock Page Objects" to Features in Accounts

Under Manage > People > Accounts in Cognos Analytics 11.0.x It is able to edit the visible features of the UI for different roles. "Lock" and "Unlock" are available for Reporting. In Cognos Analytics both menu options have been deleted and k...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance fault handling of Cognos BI in case of missing services

If distributed Cognos env or just single install.Enhance the fault handling if one or more service are (temporarily) missing/down in the way to buffer/queue the request instead of many failed requests causing many failed report execution
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Governor Setting Accessibility within Cognos Connection

Expose the governor settings on the Package Settings page in Cognos Connection and allow for the settings to be altered. For new packages I would default the exposed settings using the values defined in the Model. For re-publishing an existing pac...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to dynamically add missing dates to a report that don't exist in the database

When creating reports off a database that does not have a complete date dimension (meaning missing dates in the database). Cognos should be able to fill in the missing dates dynamically. For example:
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map drill-thru support in Workspace for listening widget prompts

We would like to use the Map drill-thru functionality to act as a master prompt for widgets listening in a multi-widget Workspace , whereby the other Workspace widgets use the pass-thru map variable as the Prompt value.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Read Only Access to Permissions and Capabilities Tabs

Users who can't access folders or reports due to security settings don't understand what the security settings are to know what access to request. They can't see the Permissions and Capabilities tabs of the objects.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Have the ability to export the result of LCM into text file

Client requires to have the ability export Name, Status, DQM enabled, Progress on LCM into text file.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration