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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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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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Dynamic cubes with calculated measures in dashboard

I would like to be able to use calculated measures from a dynamic cube in dashboarding 11.x.x.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Assistant AI

I feel the assistant is a step in the right direction, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience. Instead of relying on specified data sets, I'd like to define a series of default datasets that should be used unless otherwise sp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to apply the "Set as home" feature to folders

Please restore the ability to set a folder as home using the "Set as home" feature. Currently, this feature only applies to objects like reports and dashboards. This feature was available for folders in versions prior to Cognos Analytics.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide Export/Report of customized Features

Need an method to compare the customized Features between environments (Dev/QA/Prod). Currently, updating Features (Manage --> Accounts --> Cognos.... then under group properties, Customization tab, Features) is a manual process and must be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Content Store database to be stored in Always On High Availability SQLServer.

Please support the Content Store DB within SQL Server Always On - High Availability. We have proved this does work using MSSQL JDBC driver 6.4, on Cognos Analytics 11R11, however it should be supported officially by IBM.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Simple CDC Password Change process for Oracle Target

We are now required per compliance rules to change the password for any application ID every 30 days. We have identified steps to complete this task but they are very cumbersome and time consuming, introducing a great amount of risk and labor to m...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.7 "Link to Package" functionality is not Available

Product : Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 Issue : Users are facing difficulties to re link their package in Cognos 11.0.7 reports. Description : Users used to change the package (Re link) for their report by just clicking the report properties and then by...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration