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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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Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to abbreviate multiple widgets at one time

allow users to abbreviate multiple KPI widgets at one time. As is, users can only abbreviate one widget at a time. Typically on a dashboard, there are multiple KPIs, and it's likely that if one needs to be abbreviated, all need to be abbreviated.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - when opening a data source, have a recents folder like in main navigation

when opening a dashboard data source, have a recents folder just like in main navigation
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Editing error messages by Cognos

I would like to edit the following error messages: - Error Messages Displayed by Cognos. - English error messages received by Cognos from Db2. (Case #TS003642)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Custom Modeling in Data Modules from Planning Analytics

Using a data source connection to a Planning Analytics application, I'm able to generate a Cognos Analytics Data Module from specific application cubes. However, when opening the Data Module, I first have to create a table/view of the application ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add Memority Support in Cognos Analytics

add Memority as a supported identity Management in Cognos Analytics https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/prereqsForProduct?deliverableId=C2ACFFC08DA411E7A1A213628837956C#sw-9
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AODA compliance requirements, Cognos to display a pop-up message to warm users that their session is about to expire

As per AODA compliance requirements, Cognos is required to display a pop-up message to warm users that their session is about to time out. Currently this functionality in not available.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration