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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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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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Ability to Set up Urls

Ability to define URL in Cognos Analytics 11.0.6
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Automated Data Quality Assessment

This feature would enable users to identify and address data quality issues within their datasets seamlessly. The system should perform checks for missing values, outliers, inconsistencies, and other data anomalies. It could also provide suggestio...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Get path to reports back in job definitions

In CA 11.1.7: After the removal of "Classic view" from the "job definition" interface it is no longer possible to see exactly which report is included in a job. We used to have the /../ -"icon" we could put the mouse over to get the path to the re...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request For (Configurable) Tree Prompt Behavior

We would like a behavior change to tree prompts, possibly as a configuration option. When a tree prompt is in single-select mode, and when a node is selected, we would like the parent nodes to be permanently greyed out and disabled for selection.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple cache states for virtual dynamic cubes

Current design allows two cache states per dynamic cube, ie. to allow reports to be successfully executed, during a member cache refresh. With virtual cube this exposes a errornous situation, when the member cache of both base cubes are refreshed ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior"

Currently the FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior" has two options which are documented here. There should be added a third option: "Always use data item name (if there is no explicit label defined)". The problem is that the list column na...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

alternating colors of rows and columns in report studio crosstab

I want to have an easy way to add alternating colors of rows and columns in a report studio crosstab.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration