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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CA: Error correcting algorithm for invalid members/MUNs

Hello we would expect having same behavior as planing analytics workspace as using same restapi connector in CA - if an MDX query comes back with members not found - perform a test 'drop bad tuples' query to check all members with parents (aa^bb) ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cube Designer: Select standard folder for cubes

It would be useful to select a standard folder for the publishing of the cube-packages. The standard folder should be set for every dynamic cube.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder usage within Data modules

I am trying to use folders within my data module so the users can distinctly see the dimensions and navigational paths
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Is a defect

Rich text content not available in reports

The long description fields in the ICD can contain formatted content („rich text content“).This content cannot be reported with Cognos.The appropriate cognos tool for this kind of data would be the Rich Text element but these elements support ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Tab in tabs in dashboards

We would like to be able to create subtabs in dashboards. A tab consisting of one or many sub-tabs. This would make it easier to structure the data in a dashboard.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory restrict full search

Users can use search on AD namespace and be able to see all other users from other OUs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration