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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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When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add a snapshot of a report output to an existing email or Slack message stream

Provide an option that would take a snapshot of a report output (with markups) and copy it to the clipboard. This would facilitate augmenting an existing message exchange with additional report snapshots as opposed to requiring a new share reque...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Glass Portal Signout option by user to go to External system for Logoff

To have the signout action of the Glass Portal with in Cognos Analytics go to a configurable external URL for signout of IBM Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prohibit Concurrent Logins in Business BI (including mobile)

As noted in PMR 81027,442,000, our security function has cited us as having a security issue with the present ability to sign into IBM Cognos BI in multiple sessions at the same time. Per a discussion with IBM security, this is a BI session manage...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Ability to have summary totals in a two fact crosstab

Ability to have summary totals in a two fact crosstab
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for Multiple User Sessions

Issue : Application shows multiple users sessionsObservation : Session Management
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logging of data in Audit Table even when report prompt values are cached

We need to understand that how the logs are created in the Audit table because when the prompt values are submitted it is creating a log in the Audit table with the corresponding report name. So it is affecting the monthly audit average data. Even...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration