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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.

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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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RANK in Cognos Report Authoring

We migrated from Cognos 7 to Cognos 11. Users cannot create query calculations. Some users use only basic functionality in the reports. In powerplay there used to RANK option. Please create an option to create RANK column field in Cognos report au...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Tab in tabs in dashboards

We would like to be able to create subtabs in dashboards. A tab consisting of one or many sub-tabs. This would make it easier to structure the data in a dashboard.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

DATA SCOPE SHOULD BE MANDATORY TO CREATE MDE JOB

While creating MDE job, observe that able to create MDE job without selecting the Data scope data. We don't have use case yet to create MDE job without selecting the assets scope. We need this scope should be mandatory.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Support AttrSL and AttrNL functions in TM1 rules

It is unprescedented that attribute information functions of this type are supported only in TurboIntegrator and not in Rules. These functions should be supported in rules just like AttrS and AttrN. This is required for any model where localized a...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Informix to HammerDB benchmarking tool

HammerDB is a leading benchmarking tool to benchmark database performance. This tool enables DBA to verify configuration of the OS/database and assess the impact of any hardware or database configuration changes. HammerDB supports DB2 however ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Print all IC-reports at once

Users run Company>Reconcile>Intercompany balances for a company and many IC-reports. Then they want to print all the IC-reports and have to pick them one by one. They want to have a button "Print all".
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Stop Package invalidation on Enable/Disable System Time

System time has proven to be a very valuable resource, but there are some limitations that make it difficult to administer. One of those limitations is that when system time is enabled or disabled it invalidates any static package accessing the ba...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAW Hyperlink and Box Storage

PAW supports hyperlinks. The problem is that in order to provide a hyperlink there is a need for external services like Box or Dropbox.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration