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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,

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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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TM1/PAL server able to connect to more than one BI environment with integrated security mode 5

Today it is easy to hit limits on connecting one TM1/PAL instance to only one CA11 environment as there is only one BI environment to be configured in tm1s.cfg for authentication. IntegratedSecurityMode = 5 ClientCAMURI = http://gateway.domain...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

custom appender log4j2 logging and CJAP and SDK logging

Today there is no feasibility to log CJAP or our SDK based batch script into custom log file using log4j2/SLF4j implementation. Earlier we used to use log4j 1.x with log4j.properties file and able to log SDK/CJAP into our custom log file. With 11....
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

LifeCycle Manager Default User

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, you could assign a default user and password, but then didn't have to input it ever again. I am getting prompted 3 different times to get to a project just so I can look at it or edit it. That is extreme...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter Behavior in Interactive Mode

When filter is added to the layout in interactive mode, and filtered data set is returned, there is no visual indication that the additional filter was applied. Target application: Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support connection to KDB datasource on linux installation for Cognos Analytics

We have a global BI platform Cognos Analytics (linux) solution within ING and we want to use that for all the ING users worldwide. We already received requests for connecting KDB to Cognos. I would estimate around a couple of hundred of users that...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting Time Functions should use the Time zone set in Cognos Global Configuration

Reporting Time Functions and Tool box items should use the time zone that has been defined in Server Time Zone in Global Configuration.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date prompts to include period options (Required for scheduling )

It would be grate if date and Date time Prompts would contain Extra options like: Current month Current Year Previous Year This is a big problem for scheduling reports.Yes there are work arounds, However for regular users who create a reports its ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Support IE 11 on touch sensitive devices (MSGesture)

In IE11 on any touch sensitive device, Microsoft created new events to handle things like mouse movement, finger swipes, and light pen interactions. Prior to IE 11, these were all considered Mouse events, however in IE11 Microsoft changed their co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard,Waterfall graph:How to move X-axis item names.

The X-axis item names are displayed at the bottom. When many items are lined up on the X-axis, the problem is that the user's line of sight moves significantly. I would like to add a function to move the item name on the X-axis.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration