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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Expression for retrieving a list of PA subsets for a dimension

An expression of some sort is needed to retrieve a list of subsets for a dimension. The use case is to be able to create a dynamic report that gives users a dropdown of available subsets, allowing them to choose which one to use in their report ou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a setting within Cognos Configuration to globally set autocomplete to off on the login screen

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, Content Store, Audit Store and Notification Store databases are hosted on a Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance. Authentication mode is Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication for the databases. As of now Cognos Analytics supports on...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Testing, Development, Accessibility -. browser other than FireFox.

For Development, Testing, and Accessibility, I would like to request that there is another browser used possibly IE or Chrome, as Firefox in Canada is used by only 5% of the population and is actually blocked by many businesses. This makes it frus...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

enable more secure algorithm when using ThirdParty CA

When using the customer's CA they want to have all certificate to be at least in sha256 but when using the following procedure we can only use sha1 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.do...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Visual aids settings are not persistent

Within report the settings for visual aids are not persistent as it was in Cognos-10. Thus we appreciate saving the settings for visual aids.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of REST-API by factor of 3x providing latest report version per default without intermediate steps

REST-API provides access to latest report version asking the API 3x:1.) Ask for report details2.) Ask for saved report output versions3.) Ask for lastest saved Output version.Each request connects, waits, queques, receives, reads results and execu...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

compatibleProductVersion should have a "silent fail" option

When writing an extension the compatibleProductVersion object allows you to specify which versions the extension should work with. In theory this is great as it would allow the extension author to build a single package that covers multiple versio...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration