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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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  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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Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Connection between widget and filter area filters

I would like to specify connection between each filter and each widget. Currently you can't define what widget work with which filter (from filter area). Its all or nothing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add support for custom URLs to Cognos Analytics dashboards including multilingual and accessibility parameters

We wish to have full support for custom URLs with all optional parameters extended to include Cognos Analytics dashboards. This should include support for multilingual parameters contentLocale and productLocale, as well as accessibility features p...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration