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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,

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  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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Cognos Analytics

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Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

"Save to the file system" Feature for Cognos 11 Portal

Currently the Cognos 10 view in Cognos 11 has the "Save to the file system" capability when scheduling the report. I would to get his added in the normal Cognos 11 portal .
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto Refresh Reports

The ability to easily set a report to automatically refresh every x seconds/ minuets /hours The actual time between refreshes should be configurable. This could be as a property of the report, and apply to all data in the report, a property of the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce two factor (2F) authentication

IBM/Cognos doesn't currently connect to Salesforce when using two factor (2F) authentication. Support checked with development folks and unfortunately at this moment CA is unable to handle any 2F authentication - be it portal access or in datasour...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Remove 'Excel Data' from RUN options

Case ID : TS000069372We don't want to provide the Excel Data option to the end user. Through Customization we were able to hide the 'Excel Data' option from the Edit Mode. When we use Run As option, the Excel Data still exists. We are looking for ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

32k limit creating Data Group in Data Module

There is a 32k limit on number of items shown when creating Data Group in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Module. The limitation also includes the ability to search items outside the first 32k. So basically, if you have a data source with more than 3200...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Package to Data Module

Could IBM provide a tool or a way to easily convert an existing Cognos Package as a Data Module? This will help with faster adoption as we would not need to manually re-create a FM model in Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Additional audit logging capabilities for Cognos Analytics

Customer needs to audit application changes made by administrators and/or privileged users. Our current authentication/security is Active Directory based and we need to track the changes made by users that are part of an administrator AD group. Fu...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration