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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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Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office)

Currently, the IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office) continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll) for authentication. For certain OIDC SSO setups, the use of Trident is causing incompatibility issues (such as Trident/IE being unable to handle ad...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

XML copy for datasets

Hi There, We are using copy xml to clip board and open it from clip board for datasets on 11.1.3. but after upgrade to 11.2.4, this feature is no longer working (it copies queries but not pages). we raised a case PMR TS017545639 with IBM. support ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Track filters on Cognos Usage Reports

It would be useful to track down on Cognos Usage Reports which filters were selected on the dashboard, alongside the date and the user who selected the filters. This would be excellent for a usage analytics scenario.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Update references for derived query items when changing the query operation/reference

For advanced reports it is essential to operate with derived queries. Such queries are using a query operation (like join, union etc.) or a query reference as the data source. You often get to the point where you need to make changes to your deriv...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration