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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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Controller Web: Data Entry for Accounts with intercompany code M

Data entry for accounts with intercompany code M is not possible in controller web, but should be possible.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Renewing credentials

'Automatically renew trusted credential' in Cognos Analytics 11 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998776 In SSO it is impossible to automatically renew trusted credential
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support for custom lines and points on Mapbox maps

Would love to see non-polygon objects like railway tracks, roads, shipping routes on a map and then control the colour and thickness with intensity of use (or something else). Mapbox Studio supports custom point, line and polygon objects. While su...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Routing Rule Capability for Cognos Data Sets

Add the ability to assign a routing rule to data sets, like we can with FM packages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Responsive layout in reports

Hello, we would like to have an option to build reports with completely reponsive layout when scaling the screen (resolution), like zoom in/out or when users are switching the screens so that reports/dashboards will fit automatically and rescale. ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

edit hover-over information in charts on PAW (and on PAfE and TM1Web)

it would be nice to have the possibility to edit the box / pop-up window for hover-over in charts, it means, you can decide, what information you can see at the hover-over. At least, it would be nice to see all the information for the value that i...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration