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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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Cognos Analytics

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Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance handling of responses received for XHR requests by App.-Server

Testcase: * Login and use the portal * Shutdown App.-Server or loose network connection * Click on portalitem Depending on the product in use (administration, report editor, dashboard, portal, navigation pane, ...) => results in technical ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Update DB2ZOS SCripts for Tables and Tablespaces to support UTS that is the DB2 Z/OS direction.

Current Cognos Analytics Configuration scripts like tablespace_db2zos.sql , needs to be updated to support UTS. This is the direction of IBM DB2 V12 and higher to use UTS tables and Tablespaces. One Table per one Tablespace. No longer use Shared t...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Allowlist only the HTML tags that wont trigger any execution in the browser

As a part of Pent test,it was observed that IBM Cognos application is vulnerable to Stored-XSS occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a vulnerable web application. The application accepts all type of inputs without validation ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Dynamic PDF Secure Password

Customers want to leverage the PDF Secure Password functionality but want the password abstracted away to stored in a database rather than hardcoded in the Cognos job or schedule.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Under Team Content We need All reports and path and description details not Audit report

User asked what are the reports under Team content. Report Name ,Report Path and Description of the report. Example: Team Content->Office A->under 10 Reports we need to see all 10 Reports and description. In Audit Report only User run report...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration