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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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Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Select Own Custom Designed Mapbox Layers

Mapbox Studio allows you to design custom maps, including using your own data. You should be able to use your own Mapbox basemaps, instead of only the 10 or so basemaps provided by Cognos.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DBCFG and DB_GET_CFG to filter updatable parameters only

To mimic the full database configuration, and not only the performance related parms, that db2look would generate update statements for, it would be good to have DBCFG admin view and/or DB_GET_CFG table function to allow selection of the updatable...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

When dashboard opens in non-edit mode, it should open in full screen mode by default

When we click on the dashboard link, it opens in non edit mode by default. So when it opens in non-edit mode, it should have the ability to open in full screen mode by default (without having to click the full screen mode button)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Capabilities to restrict access to specific types of sources

There are 5 types of sources for data modules: packages data modules data sets uploaded files data server connections Not every user should see or have access to all of these types of sources. For example we don't want our users to upload files an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

MDX support for NOW + FORMAT functions

I’m trying to create dynamic subsets that utilize the current date. This works STRTOMEMBER(' [Date] . [ Date] . [' + '2020-05-20' + '] ') Shouldn’t this? I get an error. STRTOMEMBER(' [Date] . [ Date] . [' + Format(Now(),'yyyy-mm-dd') + '] ')
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CA11 WebBased Modelling - JDBC Connections / SignOns will be not sorted

In reporting, the user may be shown various connections for selection. These connections are in alphabetical order. If JDBC connections are used, they are not displayed sorted. This concerns Web-based modelling. JDBC connections should be displaye...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add BoxPlot to available Dashboard/Story Visualization options

The BoxPlot is an available visualization option in report studio but has yet to make its way over to the Dashboard tool. We would like to use this visualization in multiple dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release