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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Provide option to set preferred user name than generated Informix user

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our field fail to install cognos analytics using easy install option in some customer environments for POCs as customers have limitation of not using local users or simple user names such as Informix. When w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Repair PAX to enable formulas in the Excel cell (such as SUBNM or DBRW,etc.)

If open Custom Report (or Dynamic Report) then the figures don’t refresh using PAX IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.46
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Glass UI Search Functionality

Currently Cognos Analytics uses costly LDAP searches when browsing a namespace.If you search for an individual user however the search behaviour fast and as expected. If however the result of the search would require you to adjust the search, then...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IMAP (and TLS over IMAP) support

Product: IBM Cognos 10.2.2Actor: Janalakshmi Financial Services IBM Cognos is commonly used product for BI reporting. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos 10.2.2 for BI reporting. We also use feature of Cognos to send reports as email attachment ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide source variable for Chart legends, labels and other elements

In a multi-lingual environment we need to change the titles, legends and axes labels based on the user language. Currently the only way to do this is with Conditional Block which makes maintenance challenging.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to hide date of report

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, the date under a report was hidden. In Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 the date of when a report is created is shown under the report, as shown in the attached image.For some of our users this date is confusing be...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics, have to change zoom for it to appear when using Cognos Analytics to create a report.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Capturing activity on audit report from drill-thru links

We created a Cognos report that shows who has accessed specific reporting on our server. However, we are unable to see all the activity for a report that has drill-thru links to other reports. In this case, a user is able to choose between report...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration