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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Distinct / Group by should be available in subqueries in cognos generated sql which will give better perrformnace

Distinct should be available in subqueries in cognos generated sql which will give better performance. Please provide an option to select for adding distinct in subqueries like with clause option in cognos generated sql which will give better perf...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Allow SSO for reporting images in backend reports

Customers wish to have central cloud locations that use credentialed sign on to pull images for reports and not have the reports be ran in the browser.
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Access Cognos REST API via Gateway URL

Currently, IBM Cognos Analytics only officially supports REST API access via the dispatcher URL. While technically possible, using the Gateway URL for REST API access is not supported. This limitation presents challenges for customers whose networ...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add SCIM support for CA

SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_for_Cross-domain_Identity_Management) An integ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Store filter selections per user in shared Dashboards

In shared Dashboards it would be great if each user can store his individual filter values in drop down filters so when he access the dashboard later it would be loaded by using those filters.
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Excel sheet numbering

Cognos Output need to be generate with Tab Numbering like which is working in Cognos older version previous to Cognos 12.0.4. For Example if there are 4 tabs in a output of Cognos Excel tabs names will be like Tab1,Tab2,Tab3,Tab4. Now we are not s...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In Cognos 12.0.4 IF2, I need to set a default prompt using the new dynamic prompt feature. However, it's not letting me set the value I need. It was determined that this is not a defect since specifying the type of value (caption or MUN) is not a feature of the default parameter feature yet. I was told to submit a request for it to be added as an enhancement for a future release.

Using a report as a dashboard, using a Dynamic Cube, we need to default the dashboard to display the current month of data.
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted