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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.

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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Make field descriptions and screen tips also available for Analytics Users

We get more and more questions on the visibility of data lineage and data dictionary entries of data items in packages and data modules for analytics users for compliancy reasons. At this moment an author can see the description and screen tip of ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Implement SSO with AD using SAML 2 for Cognos 10.2.2

We are migrating to Cognos BI 10.2.2 and we need to implement SSO with AD using SAML 2. Will it be possible in the next version of Cognos BI ?
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add the LogviewV2 utility back in CA 11.x to read server logs

Can't seem to find a CA equivalent to the logviewV2 utility that was bundled with Cognos 10.X. My understanding is that log viewer was an internal application that wasn't meant to be integrated into Cognos. It was a tool for IBM dev/support that w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search results remain on the screen

In home screen, when client select "Team Contents Folder" and search the report, the result is displayed. Once we go to another screen and return to the report selection screen again, the search results are displayed. At that time, we want to be a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration