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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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Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresp

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresponding to that measure only. This prevents users from viewing specific data counts that they see in the the Reports or in ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Added new column/field into source file(.xls) then uploaded into CA but changes not retrieving in Data module

Created Data Module by using excel files. Added new column/field into source files(.xls) then uploaded into cognos analytics but changes not retrieving into Data module. We need this functionality to avoid recreate Data module because we receive f...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW Hide and Pin Servers in Server Tree

Currently the server tree displays all configured TM1 servers alphabetically, it would be beneficial for end users to be able to pin servers to top of the list. An end user that only ever logs into one instance that begins with an "s" shouldn't ha...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Ability to filter a view based on text values

Currently, an option exists to filter a view based on top/ bottom numeric values ​​in rows / columns. No options are available if we need to filter the data in a view based on a string value (the only option is to write a specific mdx statemen...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Add Elastic Search as a source and sink repository for CP4D

Customers all over the world use Elastic Search as a repository of data. In this case we have an opportunity for a US Government customer that has a significant amount of data in Elastic Search and the opportunity hinges on the ability for all CP4...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

TI Process with File data source should allow local or server file selection

Currently in PAW when creating a TI process that uses a file as a data source, you can add files from your local machine or via a UNC/mapped drive. As PAW is web based, you are not working on the TM1 sever or possibly the environment in which the ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Datastage Snowflake connector add Key Pair Authentication

Requesting enhancement to use key pair authentication with the datastage snowflake connector rather than using the typical username/password authentication. https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/jdbc-configure.html#using-key-pair-authentic...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Reduce the risk of critical errors when using the PAW dimension editre

Currently when using the PAW dimension editor it is to easy to make a change that will trigger data loss. The two main areas of concern are. The editor defaults to auto-commit mode, with additional steps required to reserve the dimension so errors...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered