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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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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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make hoover colors changeable when customizing theme

We want to change colors when hoover over buttons in Cognos Analytics: * background-color * foreground-color (= text color) * selectLine And we want to change colors for active buttons (when user has clicked on a button): * background-color is c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide method to change the default namespace search to Starts with the exact string

Please provide a method to set the namespace search in the Administration tab. Currently the default is "Contains the exact string". This can be an issue when users search a large LDAP. To prevent unnecessary long queries against the LDAP please e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to connection to Google Analytics and Bing Analytics

Can we have ability to connect Google Analytics or Bing Analytics with Cognos, to report numbers and amounts.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

No checkboxes on prompt page

In CA11 the check box options are not available on the prompt page when we create "Context filter" and apply "Prompt on Hierarchy" in CA. In Cognos 10 there was a check box selection and the customer was able to select the check box and was able t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration