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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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Add Palette Colors to Widget Text Items and Objects

Add the ability to apply Palettes to Widget Shapes and Text to increase the number of colors available.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Application continuity - Oracle 12c

The Oracle 12.2 version has a feature called 'Application Continuity'. Application Continuity is used to improve the user experience when handling both unplanned outages and planned maintenance. It masks outages from end users and applications by ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

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

Ability to load semi-additive in-memory aggrates in cognos dynamic cube

Hi,At this point of time, IBM cognos dynamic cubes 10.2.2 doesn't support loading of in-memory aggregates for semi-additive and calculated measures. Financial and HR clients mostly show balances and headcounts as of last period in BI Analytics. Wi...
over 9 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

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.
over 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...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration