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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Need keyboard shortcut keys to skip links and move to main report content

Keyboard users are unable to skip the links (on top of report output) and move to the main content of Report Studio report. They have to tab through all the links to get to the main content.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Restrict "Create Calculation" for specific data Items in Framework Manager.

Idea is to restrict users to create calculatoin for specific data Items. we don't want to remove "Create Calculation" globally for all data items. (By unchecking create calculation from capabilities).
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select All/Multi- Bulk Selection for Job steps

In our new 11.1.7 CA environment, we are testing all of the different functions that we use to ensure everything is pretty much the same. While testing, we came across one functionality that is quite different. When going to the properties of a jo...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to import TenantID in OpenID namespace via CSV

The functionality to import the users in a OpenID namespace misses the ability to import the TenantID. Since we work with a multi tenant environment in combination with a authentication provider configured bases on de OpenID standard we have to im...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Reports Set with output of Excel 2007 are being changed to HTML, when importing Content Store from 10.x. to 11.x

When importing a Content Store from C10 to C11, any report set as Excel 2007, and being changed to HTML. This is requiring hundred of reports having to be modified manually to the new EXCEL option.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Display the totals at the top in stacked columns

It is only showing the subtotals within the bars, but not to what they add up to at the top.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start a histogram positioned in the LAST date

If the histogram represents the daily evolution, it would be good the chart to start with the last date selected as the data within the chart is dynamically changing every day, adding a new date. So although one can sort the date asscending or des...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration