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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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Allow multiple Targets in Bar and Column Dashboard visualizations

We are trying to create a plan vs actual cost visualization but want to leverage multiple plans. For instance, we have the plan at the beginning of the year as well as the current revised plan. In both bar and column charts, they have the option f...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Extend FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior"

Currently the FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior" has two options which are documented here. There should be added a third option: "Always use data item name (if there is no explicit label defined)". The problem is that the list column na...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to delete and re-create cluster manager domain via db2haicu as part of major Db2 version upgrade.

Currently, when performing a version upgrade to Db2 V11.1 it is necessary (from a support perspective) to delete the TSAMP Domain and re-create it.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

ISAM configuration with Cognos 11.0.9 with SSO

we have installed cognos analytics(11.0.9) on a Linux machine with IBM HTTP. Later we are trying to configure the CA with ISAM for security and single sign on. where we are facing issues.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View systems messages - keep history of messages and alerts with details

System messages popup top right of screen for a number of seconds and then disappear. We should be able to review all of the messages\alerts raised and drill into the details i.e. you run a TI process from an action button. While away from your co...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search for a report by modified date leaving the report name blank

The Search feature: I cannot use the filter unless I first enter a name for the report I am searching for. I want to search for a report or dashboard I created, but I can't remember the name. But I do know when I created it. However, the Search fe...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stored-Proc ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE: Add a Stop-Condition to continue when RC > 12 occurs

When a Db2-Utility started by Stored-Procl ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE abends the Reason-Code is passed back as the Return-Code. This happens for example if REORG fails due to problems with allocating SORTWORK-Datasets, especially for big tables, or when i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration