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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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64-bit driver for MarkLogic

We need to be able to report on data that is stored in MarkLogic and requesting IBM to enhance the platform with 64-bit driver for MarkLogic.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

"include as link" option when choosing to "send report by email" should be configurable

We currently have our own custom authentication process to log into Cognos which is via SSO. If a user chooses to "include as link" when sending an email, the link will not bring up the report. Because we have our own product which we want the use...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter text for query filters in the report output

Filter text for query filters in the report output
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Write CAM-AAA-0036 error messages to COGIPF_ACTION table.

User login errors associated to Schedules are not written to the COGIPF_ACTION table. This is related to APAR PI50224 ERROR MESSAGE NOT BEING WRITTEN TO AUDIT DATABASE We would like to see the error message "CAM-AAA-0036 Unable to authenticate bec...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for Cognos licence when emailing content to users with no Cognos access

When we schedule a report like other BI products we would like the ability to deliver content straight into users/customers inboxes without the requirement for them to hold as a minimum an Information Distribution licence. We accept that those com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

missing input validation

Malicious input of attacker can be restricted.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration