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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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  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 prefix or postfix to the report name upon saving the report.

We have a request from user. When the user enters a name to save the report in Cognos Analytics, is it possible to have an option to add some text (such as FOUO) to the report name either before or after what they enter?
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

DC Searching for members takes a long time

Using a Dynamic Cube and searching for member caption or any other attribute is taking a massive amount of time from Reports. If you search for one member its fine but searching for several at the same time (more than 10) in a dimension with 200.0...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

No Data option for Report Visualisations

No Data option for Report Visualisations
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Member Caption in Context Filter is out of Sync

The captions of the dimension elements in the context filter do not update after a rebuild of the cube. The data source already contains the new caption, but the report still contains the old one. (See screenshot in appendix).The same, wrong behav...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SSO not working with 2 AD security namespaces

When logging into Cognos Analytics 11.0.4 using SSO with 2 AD security namespaces the login screen is presented but after clicking OK to a particular namespace, login fails with an error. There is the option to use a second gateway with second web...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drag and drop set additions for reporting (like Analysis Studio did)

In Analysis Studio, you can drag additional items into a set, and it lets you and they stay as one set. This then allows calculations and summary data to be based on all the data in the set. In Reporting, you can't drop and drop additional items, ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back the Cube updated date into Reporting

In Analysis Studio, you can very easily see when Transformer cubes were built. This is extremely useful for our users, so that they know for sure they're using fresh data. This functionality appears missing in Reporting.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TopCount function loses logic when drilling up

TopCount function is used in Dimensional reporting (ex top 10). With Interactivity set to Yes: drill down works fine but when drilling up, the topcount logic is lost. With Interactivity set to No: drill down works fine and when drilling up, the to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration