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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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Multiselection prompt missing checkboxes in interactive mode

Hello, we would liek to have a different presentation of multiselection prompt when we enable interactive mode in reports. Today to domultiselection we have to use ctrl. With many lines to select it makes it complicated for users and we have neg...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties Some query items are not in the map visualization for the drill through. The user wants to set define properties like in a list, so he can drill through on query subjects that are not in the map
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Keep Report Description after a Save As action

Most desktop applications like Excel or Word, keep description content when editing a document and then using Save as to save the document to a different name.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove option for users to sent themselves a blank email

In Cognos 10, when emailing report output the menu required either attaching the report output or sending a link to the report. In Cognos Analytics when a user is attempting to email themselves the report output, if they want to attach the report ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Statistical calculations in Dashboard does not work

It was found that the statistical calculations like 'median' for Summary is not working in Dashboard. This is with reference to case created TS005791544 with IBM Support. The feature is available but fails to summarize correctly.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

AD Group Security Management for Cloud

The ask is not different than what is recently became available for local version of Planning Analytics. It would be beneficial if security could be managed for TM1Web, PaW, etc. through AD rather manual management.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Business Analytics Enterprise/Analytics Content Hub 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration