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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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Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drillthrough option to open in New window

It will be good to have the ability to drill-through from dashboard to open in new window, like from Report if we can have check box to select this option it will be nice
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Confirmation regarding past inquiry

My colleague submitted an improvement request for ‘OP-I-1032’ and was informed that you would respond within 90 days. However, more than 90 days have passed, and there has been no reply. I would like to check the status. Past inquiry are as follow...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deploy TI processes with PAW life cycle management

TI processes are an important part of any PA application and should be deployable without any downtime of the target environment at any time. In the current state of PA processes must be deployed entirely manually by copying .pro files and restart...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add feature that would let a Cognos admin to request a user's credentials be refreshed

One logical...even likely...scenario is that a Cognos admin views the license usage and discovers that one of the license groups has more users assigned to it than are actually owned by the customer. After researching which user has been granted t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

edit hover-over information in charts on PAW (and on PAfE and TM1Web)

it would be nice to have the possibility to edit the box / pop-up window for hover-over in charts, it means, you can decide, what information you can see at the hover-over. At least, it would be nice to see all the information for the value that i...
almost 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration