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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Exporting/Downloading Uploaded Data Files

Add the option to be able to export/download previously uploaded files from Cognos Analytics.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

DQM Query Execution Time Limit

Implement a governor to limit the execution time of DQM Queries, since currently there is no governor that applies to DQM Queries, as per documentation and feedback from PMR 07802,499,000. The customer VF Services (9446150) has a business requirem...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

· Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly

Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Show complete path when searching package content in Reporting

Search package content in Reporting only shows the field name. If a field with the same name exists under different paths (e.g. person number) the user cannot decide ad hoc which field to take. Display of the whole path or at least the parent quer...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration