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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.

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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Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enabling the use of Audit reports in Cognos Analytics SaaS

In Cognos Analytics on-Prem version, it is possible to perform Audit reports. However, in the Cloud (SaaS) version, it is not possible to perform audit reports/users in the Cloud (SaaS) version. In contact with IBM Support, the specialist recommen...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Reports not refreshed when a package is updated

After a package has been updated, all associated reports no longer use parameter caching to improve performance. In order to re-enable parameter caching, reports must be resaved manually, otherwise this may result in RSV-PMG-0003 errors. We woul...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand/Collapse in dashboard

You're not able to expand or collapse a crosstab using a relational model. This functionality is only available using a power cube
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Monitoring report pages/dashboard tabs in Audit Database in Cognos Analytics

Monitoring report pages/dashboard tabs in Audit Database in Cognos Analytics : With the possibility of display report pages as tabs, customers like to build reports with multi-pages that display multi-analysis at the same time instead of separated...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Custom Tooltips in Dashboards & Reports

Custom Tooltips is an extremely helpful thing for anyone Cognos users. Please add this feature in all possible scenarios mainly Dashboards and Reports.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration