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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.

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


Status Submitted
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Portal
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 13, 2024

Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Folders and Admin tools. The name difference is caused mainly by IBM Cognos who have redesigned this sidebar as of v12.0.x, and probably to make that easier to implement have decided to give the new sidebar layout and content a new name.

Problem is, the company theme was able to be applied to the old NavBar (background, foregrond colours) but the new OpenMenu has no such options.

It's rather unfortunate that we need to request this via IBM Ideas, but here goes.

IBM, please add colour theming to the new bar as well.

Needed By Month