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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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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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Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable routing of dashboards based on data modules, the same way as reports do

When responsible for a large multi-server installation consisting of multiple dispatchers, the Cognos Analytics administrator wants control of which servers are being used for processing requests. Currently, routing rules based on data tags can be...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

COGNOS ANALYTICS : Synchronization of emails from an LDAP directory under Cognos Analytics for PAW security

Hello, We are in the following versions of Planning Analytics (PAL, PAW, PAX and PASS) in our DEVELOPMENT/RECEPTION/PRODUCTION environment: - PAL 2.0.9.11 - PAW 2.0.73 - PASS 2.0.73 - PAX 2.0.73 We use Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 (CA) only for Plannin...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

License report does not consider removed users

We currently have the following scenario. The standard Manage > License feature is reporting user licenses. Users removed from AD are removed from the output after running a consistency check task. So far so good.. We have users that can no lon...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to adjust attributes of users via REST API such as the tenant-id

With use of the REST API we create users in our multi tenant environment to automate the onboarding of new customers and new users. While doing this we would like to assign a user directly to the correct tenant. We experience that adding the tenan...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Need connector to connect to the splunkbase

Need to upload cognos logs to splunkbase
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration