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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Remove underline from text objects (especially for Hyperlink class)

I would like to have the option in the Report Module to remove underlines from text objects (Hyperlink classes). As of now we only have the option to enable underline for text objects.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Active Filters on Dashboard

Would be useful to switch on/off a view of any active filters on a Dashboard. Or incorporate active filters into title of visualisation.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Reuse Conditional Styles Across Queries

Would like to be able to reuse condiional styles across queries.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Document Enhancement - Reuse Conditional Styles

Please add to current documentation that a single conditional style cannot be used across queries.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO Cognos Controller 10.3 (FP1) and Cognos Analytics 11.0.5

The possibility to have SSO through IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 and IBM Cognos Controller 10.3 (FP1) Please, refer to PMR 89455,211,788.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to manage Notifications for individual users

Users have set Alerts via "Alert me about new versions" on Reports. The only Admin Tool available in the UI is "Do not alert any about new versions" - this will remove all active Alerts.An option is required to remove individual Users from the Ale...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add tool top to Cognos Report Column Header

User Runs Report. Hovers ouse over Column Headings . Able to see more description or screen tip
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding User to Groups: One place to add a User to Multiple Role/Group at a time

Strange enough that you can add multiple Users to a Role or Group but you can't do the opposite It gets a bit or quite frustrating when you need to repeat the same steps to find Roles/Groups to add a User to
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux to supported environments

In State of Ohio we have Oracle appliances and we have been running COGNOS analytics on OEL(Oracle Enterprise Linux) for he last 7 years. it would be good if IBM can add this in the supported environments which avoids the ambiguity for State and i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration