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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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Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube : In Memory Aggregation for Measures with Timestate Rollup

In Banking Sector(Credit Risk Data), most of the measures are setups with time state rollup as last period. But Dynamic Cube Analyzer fails for any measure that is set with time state rollup when I run aggregate advisor. It fails saying that those...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parametarized URL, passing data source connection as Store ID

With parametarized URL it is possible to pass report object via report path or Store ID, but it is not possible to pass data source connection as Store ID.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

'JOB' in 'My Schedules and Subscriptions' breaks into multiple line items as per the number of reports

When you run a Job, my schedule and subscription screen does split the Job and its associated reports to separate line items as per the number of associated reports, we don't have a way to tie a report to Job from Schedules and Subscription screen...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration