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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Enable reporting on Cognos configuration metadata

Add the ability to report/extract configuration information from the Content Store database or Cognos Administration portal.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easiest border info reading in properties border popup (direct instead of mouseover) - Report Studio

I have been developping on report studio for months and I find it very difficult to create/ modify borders.One of the biggest problem is that it is difficult to know which border you are modifying.Would it be possible to have an enhancement on thi...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On prem DQM cube builds should retrieve data though local network and not through the cloud.

For Cognos Analytics Cloud , the Transformer Cube builds that happen on-prem at the customer should retrieve data using a direct connection to the database instead of retrieving that data through the cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add reporting function to analyze report specification

In Report Studio, customer wants to have a report analysis function to generate design overview for report specification which can summarize objects used in Report Studio (prompt, list, filter, expression and so on), such as function in C8.3 tool ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Hebrew translation

Hebrew translation MUST be accompanied with GUI mirroring across all CA GUI.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Place Name Notation in Japanese

About the map of the visualization object, we would like Places and Street names displayed on the map of Japan to be unified in Japanese notation.Currently, Japanese and English notation are mixed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration