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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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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Data Modules - Support Stored procedures as for Framework Manager

Stored procedure calls as the Following : EXEC [dbo].[MY_STORED_PROCEDURE] Work partially in Chrome. Not labels for columns. And in IE11 it genrates errors. After creating an incident with IBM Support they tolds us that is not a case support but ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Common Customizable Header Above the Dashboard Tabs

At the moment within a dashboard we don't have an out of box option to add a common header on top of the tabs of the dashoard. We should have a common header or also ability to edit to add tab specific conents but the main thing is it should be ab...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Expose the Change of Field Properties like (Sort,Usage) for FM Package as Source for Cognos Analytics Dashboard

We are Currently Using IBM Cognos Analytics 11-R10 in our environment, For Dashboard Development we are using FM-DQM Package as source and we are facing issue in changing the query item properties for example : changing the sort options, aggregate...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Interactivity Across Multiple Containers in a Report

By enabling interactivity across these containers, actions taken in one container (like selecting a data point) can dynamically influence the content and display of another container on the same report canvas. When a user selects a data point or a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted