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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Support for TLS 1.2 in Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Office 10.2 is built on the .NET framework 0.4. TLS v1.2 isn't supported by the .NET Framework 0.4. We require support of TLS v1.2.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mapping of the parameter user name - official documentation by IBM

Request relates to the case TS007570460 from IBM support. The subject matter is the inappropriate mapping of the parameter user name in CP4D, i.e. ambigous mapping of user name. By default the mapping of the user name in CP4D is not equal to the m...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Alphabetical Fonts

When using Cognos Analytics users are given the default fonts and google fonts. However, these fonts are ordered based on oldest to newest imported fonts. This leads to confusion of where the fonts are and should be organized alphabetically.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add Conformance for current Microsoft OLE DB Driver

Due to the fact that Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB) and SQL Server Native Client OLE DB provider (SQLNCLI) are deprecated - active support for the current OLEDB driver would need to be added. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos allow other members from PA cube to be used as members and enable multiple widget connections

I would like to be able to use all dimensions from OLAP source as measures in visualizations. Currently I can only compare members that are in measure dimension in KPI visualization. This makes it so that you cant compare Actual vs Budget or any m...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Printing Uses User Credentials & Not Service Account

All printing requests to printers are sent using the account that the Cognos service is started against. This causes an issue for users who collect their printed output by providing a PIN. Their PIN relates to their own account and not the service...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization "Validate Bundle" Error on Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics (Cognos V11)

IBM Cognos Analytics Visualization Customizer (Cognos Analytics - Cognos V11) Error thrown by the Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics when you try to validate a bundle. Note: This only occurs in Cognos V11 Visualizations when opened thro...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Select all the values in a Value Prompt by mouse right click and dragging the cursor

Users do multi-select in value prompt and 10.2.1 used to allow mouse right click and then just drag to multi select records. We will like to have same behavior in 11.1.X with value prompt in reporting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use nested labels for multiple axis charts

The multiple axis charts only support concatenated labels. There are no nested labels in matrix charts. The case of multiple axis is the same as the case of a matrix of charts, CGS doesn't support nested labels (just concatenated). Provide the abi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exapnd the capabilities of the "Data PLayer" Viz widget to allow for a an ALL or off capability.

A user with a dashboard hat has a step through capability offered through the data player, may have a need to view the dashboard content without the filtering/step effect of the Data Viz widget. Currently this cannot be done (CA 11.1).This may NOT...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration