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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.

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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unsupported Browser Version Warning Pop-up

There should be a pop up message that tells the user they are using an unsupported browser version and that some features may not work as intended, especially on the trial and cloud versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error message. please refer case number for more details. TS001613965
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Share pins : to be able to create a pin library for certain target groups

Share pins : to be able to create a pin library for certain target groups: you can now set up your own private pin lybrary of interesting components in dashboards and explorations. We would like to have the possibility to setup a shared pin librar...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications: we have the cognos application hosted on a linux oplatform. Due to this situation, we cannot use the dynamic masking as configured in MS SQL Server 2016. We do not want t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can log on Cognos Analytics based on different roles

We want to have a situation that a user when he logs on to to Cognos Analytics he gets a selection what role he want to use, if he has multiple roles (analytics user, analytics explorer, etc.)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration