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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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Resurrect the functionality for Event Studio Agent Views

We have used Event Studio Reports for years to help identify changes to data coming from our customers and suppliers. This product has been great in helping to identify product engineering changes or new customers/suppliers etc. The data from our ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enhance capabilities for welcome page customization

Currently the themes allow a few cosmetic properties to be updated while customizing the welcome page for Cognos Analytics. I was looking to be able to customize the navbarpushbuttonforeground color property but it does not exist, only the navbarp...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the default source view of cubes

We'd like to be able to set the default source view of cubes in Report Studio. Currently, Member Tree view is the default source view in Analysis Studio. Similarly, we would like to have the default source view of 'show members only for dimensiona...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View package properties like datasources, my permissions, contents etc.

We should be able to see all the properties/options associated with a package, like, the package datasources, my capabilities, my permissions, package configuration options (modify/remove the package configuration), package contents, etc., like we...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In 11.1.7 cognos version , For DMR model multiple select filter is not working when the Data item is Member property.

In 11.1.7 cognos version , For DMR model multiple select filter is not working when the Data item is Member property. If it works it is very helpful to end user.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration