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


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Accessible Prompts

We need all prompt types to be accessible and 508 compliant. We have reports that require a user be able to input a date range, but IBMs documentation indicates the calendar date prompts are not accessible.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

User should be created automatically from connected LDAP group and not after the first login

LDAP connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Needs more information

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create a default filter for My Tasks tab

Right now My Tasks tab is not configurable. Users request the ability to create and save a default filter for the My Tasks tab. Scenario: users may be assigned to objects in a workflow stage for a long period of time. Eg. a "monitoring" stage that...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Supported Source and Targets to CloudSQL and AlloyDB on GCP

I have a Client need to InfoSphere Change Data Delivery (v11.4) support at this time a Solutions CloudSQL(Postgre v13) and AlloyDB (Postgre v14), in this case the client need to replicate the IBM AS400 DB2 in preference with AlloyDB Solution. Has ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration