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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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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

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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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Rows Per Page - Configuration of Default Property

Rows per page property is set to a default 20 rows per page in lists, crosstabs, and other reporting objects. 20 is a very low number causing users frustration and many paginations. Other solutions provided thus far do not set the global value, ra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trouble with setting date format in the Date Prompt (Date Prompt does not have Data Format property) when the Content Language is set to Ukrainian or Ukrainian(Ukraine).

Hello. This is a burning need: we need full support for the Ukrainian language in the IBM Cognos Analytics product. This revision will affect a large number of product users who use the product constantly. We're having trouble with setting dat...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Ordering Table Names and Column Names in Data Modules

When working in framework manager, I am able to sort columns alphabetically which makes the metadata easier for everyone to use. It looks like there isn't a way to do this in Data Modules in CA currently.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

IN TREE PROMPT WHEN THE CHECKBOX AGAINST ROOT NODE IS SELECTED THE CHILDRENNODES ARE NOT AUTO-SELECTED

We have a tree prompts in which we are showing product/geography which has more than one level. When user selects All Level (Root Level) and all Level 1 options to get the total value at Product/Geography level the value shown is getting doubled. ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom template with attached package in CA

Hello, I want to make template with attachment package, because I use only one package and all the time, when I make new raport, so I have to choose this same package everytime.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Fol...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

crosstab freeze options

I am using crosstab a my report. Currently we can freeze column header on report by right clicking on output and click on Freeze Column & Row headings option. However requirement from user is that they want to have both freezed column and Row ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration