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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.

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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Restore ability to apply the "Set as home" feature to folders

Please restore the ability to set a folder as home using the "Set as home" feature. Currently, this feature only applies to objects like reports and dashboards. This feature was available for folders in versions prior to Cognos Analytics.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Assistant AI

I feel the assistant is a step in the right direction, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience. Instead of relying on specified data sets, I'd like to define a series of default datasets that should be used unless otherwise sp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Export/Report of customized Features

Need an method to compare the customized Features between environments (Dev/QA/Prod). Currently, updating Features (Manage --> Accounts --> Cognos.... then under group properties, Customization tab, Features) is a manual process and must be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Content Store database to be stored in Always On High Availability SQLServer.

Please support the Content Store DB within SQL Server Always On - High Availability. We have proved this does work using MSSQL JDBC driver 6.4, on Cognos Analytics 11R11, however it should be supported officially by IBM.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Warning message before session time-out.

Users do not get prompted that their session may be about to time out. Adding a warning similar to Bank websites that warn you your session is about to end. We could for example provide the user the opportunity to save work, extend the session, or...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted