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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,

  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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Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copied objects should not retain the "Created" and "Modified" dates of the object it's copied from

Copied objects retain the "Created" and "Modified" date of the object from which they are copied. Please change this so these dates default to the current date/time when the object is created (copied). This would be more meaningful and helpful. Th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to retain pie chart size intact when show values is enabled

It would be nice if pie charts didn't randomly change their size when show values is enabled.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

URL Integration API to integrate Cognos Analytics 11 User Interface into embedded applications

Need the ability to integrate Cognos Analytics user interface into embedded applications. Similar to the capability we had with Cognos 10.2.2 to embed reports and components. Included must be the ability to pass parameters and pass logon/logoff na...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration