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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers to enable multiple consolidations batches to run in parallel

Because of the high volume of the consolidation we need to run during the closing periods, it will be very beneficial to have the ability to run multiple consolidations at the same time, in parallel batch jobs. We understand the risk of running co...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Application Performance Dashboard to monitor some parameters and get alerts when approaching critical states

Currently, when the application performance goes down, we only get to know it by the feedback we get from the users, when they have already been hit by slowness or instability accessing the application or running reports/processes within it. In or...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Manage Customizations is admin only function

We need to be able to grant developers who do visualizations and/or extensions the ability to manage and customize them. Currently the only individuals that can do this are administrators.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MHT File Download

Provide users with the ability to download the active report while viewing the report in the browser
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM OpenPages Support for IBM Cloud Object Storage is required

IBM OpenPages currently supports SAN and NAS for document storage, but these systems have limitations. SAN is only supported out-of-the-box in a single server configuration, while NAS storage cannot be expanded without migrating the entire volume ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Planned for future release

Tool to check SSL certificate connectivity with KEYSECURE

Need some way to check if provided SSL certificate for secured connection to KEYSECURE is indeed valid before putting it in kmip cfg. This reduces the risk of any issues with SSL certificate on actual implementation day on production system.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Create a way to secured access to images for multi-tenant customers.

We have many Educational customers with multiple districts. They want to be able to secure images per district, currently this is not possible. Districts should not be able to access other districts images, which include student photos and signatu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration