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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to Monitor Current and Past Activities without Admin Role

We are looking for a way to allow developers in our Non-Prod Cognos environments to have access to the Status tab of the Administration tool so that they can monitor their reports/jobs. We need a way to grant a capability to a Non-Admin role that ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding newly added data sources to data modules automatically

We're developing a data collaboration platform. New data sources in various data formats such as CSV, database table or ESRI map will be uploaded to the platform. In this context, data modules should update itself automatically.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for the latest version of the Firefox browser (68.0 and up)

This problem stems from the use of the Cognos Analytics (CA) viewer vs the classic viewer. If a report is developed in C11 it, by default will use the CA viewer. If the report property 'Run with full interactivity' is set to 'No' the report will r...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My Portal pages folder

"My Portal Pages" folder - Cases - IBM Support After enabling "My Portal Pages" folder. It is permanently displayed below the "My Content" and "Team Content" folders. Unfortunately, unlike the "My Content" and "Team Content" folders, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Upgrades - Detecting Customized Configurations No longer required

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) is a solutions provider with a complex architecture and implementation of Cognos Analytics. One our main struggles is upgrading from one version to the next. UKG has implemented product customizations, advance settings ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Shared folder links do not work for anyone except Administrators if a custom folder is configured

Any shared folder link from Cognos Analytics ( 11.0.0 through the most recent version 11.1.1.0) will not work for anyone except System Administrators or Folder Administrators and therefore this feature is useless if shared with other Consumers/Aut...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report output page options should be available for reports with Full interactivity=No, in Edit Mode

We are unable to see the following options in the report output page, when we run the report from Edit mode in HTML/PDF, for reports having 'Run with full interactivity'='No'. • ‘Run as’• Save• Refresh which means that a report developer cannot sa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable / Disable pages in a multi-page report

For developement of reports with mutliple pages it would be nice, if we could easily enable / disable some pages. We think about a similar functionality as we know for filters.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration