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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


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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Analytics on Cloud for < 25 Users

The Workgroup offering is the first entry point that IBM provides for its Cognos Business Intelligence on cloud solution. The minimum number of users within Workgroup is 25 users. Ideally, it is requested that IBM provide an offering that allows a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Advanced Graphs - Trend Lines and Summarisations and more advanced options in Cognos Analytics Dashboards and Report Studio

We are trying to persuade our clients to move away from client tools such as Power BI / Tableau to leverage the DW and take advantage of metadata models built in Framework Manager. We have tried replicating reports made in Power BI (with ease) in ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Reactivate change package funtionality using the properties

Cognos analytics does not offer the option to change a package using just the properties windows (Package is shown, but no option to change the package). This option was available in Cognos 10.X and is also available by using the legacy UI.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Role customization to control features at more granular level

We have extensively used "User Interface Profiles" in Cognos 10.2.2. After upgrading to Cognos Analytics 11 R5, this feature is deprecated and there is no control over providing different reporting capabilities to different user groups based on th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cascading Filter Prompts on Dynamic Dashboards

Global Filters and Tab Filters on Dynamic Dashboards cannot be assigned a Cascade Parent. Users can create List Widgets to use as filters but this takes up screen space (see requests for "drop down" style text/list widgets to get around this issue...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for TLS 1.2 in Cognos Business Intelligence

Cognos cgi/gw modules for apache (mod2_2_cognos.so) are built against openssl 0.9.8. This restricts protocol support to TLS 1.0. This in turn restricts the level of security we can offer through our corporate web portal.We wish to be able to suppo...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Ability to create alias tables in data modules

Need the ability to create Alias Tables in Data modules. This is a requirement to effectively use data modules instead of Framework Manager.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Delivered

Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for ReportDue to lack of this feature - every time it causes to Re-design the Dashboard if ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Default and Custom User Profiles in Cognos Analytics 11

Unlike previous versions, CA 11 does not have the functionality to set global default profile for all users or create custom profiles for different user groups. This functionality is important for us as we are in the early stages of product deploy...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Dynamic _as_of_date

The _as_of_date functionality works great and makes relative dates so much better. However, the inability to set a dynamic _as_of_date is a challenge. For example many customers have data warehouses that load based on yesterday's data. These custo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered