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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

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  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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Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Seamlessly create a new Report Schedule or Migrate schedules from one namespace to another without asking for Credential Regeneration

It is useful for existing Business-like UPS who has thousands to users who have existing schedules with IBM Directory Server and currently migrating to OIDC for MS Azure. New users have to go through this extra step and existing SDK for Regenerati...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Dataset as source for Dynamic Cubes

We need fast dimensional models, for dashboarding and reports etc. it is not always big data and perfect star schemas, but with datasets and uploaded files, Cognos Analytics would have a great boost for the dimensional model using them in Cube Des...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard Conversion from Cognos 10 to Cognos 11

Provide a tool to convert Cognos 10 Dashboard (created using Cognos Workspace) into Cognos 11 Dashboard. This will allow the editing and enhancement of Cognos 10 Dashboards using the new Cognos 11 Dashboard Studio. A functionality that does not cu...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Custom Control (Authorized Drill Through)

When creating custom controls like visualizations or data tables it is not possible to perform an out-of-the-box drill-through (authored drill through). Yes, you can use URL parameters to create a psuedo drill-through. However, this is very poor p...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio User Interface

In Report Studio, I' would like to have more options to customize the panels displayed when showing details of the queries: 1. Allow to change width of panels ‘Data Items’ vs ‘Detail Filters' 2. Allow to change height of the 3 panels ‘Detail Fi...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration