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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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URL Integration API to integrate Cognos Analytics 11 User Interface into embedded applications

Need the ability to integrate Cognos Analytics user interface into embedded applications. Similar to the capability we had with Cognos 10.2.2 to embed reports and components. Included must be the ability to pass parameters and pass logon/logoff na...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Receive notifications/alerts when Cognos environment goes down

Receive notifications/alerts when Cognos environment goes down
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FTM needs the ability to prioritize Distribution messages in order of the Processing Window the batches are assigned to

If a large number of files come into the system just before and just after the cutoff time for a processing window, depending on the makeup of the files, some files after the cutoff that will be assigned to the next window can be sent to distribut...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Improve QWT to suggest missing join predicates when not involved in declarative RI

Need to improve the tool to advise against missing lead index columns in a join. More detail in additional detail section.
9 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Future consideration

UX Improvements on Master Data Explorer UI

It will further support our business end users of MDM in navigating the Master Data Explorer. Furthermore, it will improve ALL end-users experience when performing advanced searches. Here are the specific improvements via feedback: - In addition t...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Expand DB CFG ddl_compression_def with adaptive option

The adaptive DB CFG extension would give us the opportunity to activate adaptive compression by default. At the moment it is only possible to activate the static camprosseion. Our idea is to set DDL_COMPRESSION_DEF to one of 3 possibilities: 1. NO...
9 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

[TFUI] Configure default sorting in Grid Views

Currently in a Grid View, the object instances are sorted by default by the Name field in an ascending order. In an embedded Grid, the default sorting can be configured to meet ones needs. This is not possible in a Grid View. Users have to apply t...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration