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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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Increased functionality of the "Close to" and "Not Close to" operators

When using the "close to" operators in a condition, would like the ability to specify whether or not the tolerance is only positive or only negative, in addition to the current setting which always works in both a positive and negative direction.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Search Schedule by Name in Cognos Administration Portal

Currently I have option to filter schedules but if I need to search a schedule by its name, I have to visit each page and look at it and its time consuming as well as there are chances or error and I might overlook it. I have faced this problem nu...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduce a parametric filter in calculation

When you have to select Input field you can find it in a related obj or in a Preference ... but when you try to filter the related records by an enumerate filed, you can only select one or more “specific value” BUT YOU CAN NOT FILTER record where ...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Add alternate text to images for AODO Compliance

We found Images on the following pages/services are lacking alternate texts which failed our AODA testing (WCAG Criteria 1.1.1) Add to project : Data Refinery Deployment/Test (Overview) As suggested by IBM, ref TS008471971, we would like to add th...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Remove the requirement of TPCIP task when using DDF

When running source and target jobs on different LPARs, we need to use a TCPIP job even when we choose DDF as the connection type. We need that Cloning Tool uses DDF to run queries and commands on objects of the target datasharing without the obli...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unable to connect to IDV ( Informatica Data Vault ) as a Data Source for Reporting Purpose

We have critical data stored in Informatica Data Vault (IDV )and this data is accessed via 200+ Cognos reports across different areas in the company. In the version Cognos 10.2.2, we used the Microsoft ODBC driver ( Nucleus ) to connect to this da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration