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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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Disable "Reset prompts and run" on a report or folder

TS001246554: Need ability to disable "Reset prompts and run" option on all drill-through reports where the parameters are passed from master reports. Re-setting the prompt page on a drill through report does not yield in easily understood prompt c...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Control what to show in on-demand toolbar in Report Studio

Currently the on-demand tool bar in the interactive viewer or the preview mode of the report studio has a good number of options. Most times the users may not need all the options. The favorite options however are sort, filters and aggregate only....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for pulling Data Source credentials from HashiCorp Vault password stores (and other cloud native password vaults)

We have requirements driven by IT to standardize on storing passwords for applications in HashiCorp Vault, a centralized password store that enables fine-grained access to the credentials. Today, we have to create crude integration scripts to main...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Under review

Member unique name for measure dimension based on memberID

Hello, we would like to base a measure dimension element for packages based no Planning Analytics cubes on memberID like for elements in non-measure dimensions. Today its based on caption which is changing with business needs so its not very stabl...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

See more data about uploaded file

In the properties of an uploaded file, I can see the size of the file, but I would like to see how many ROWS in the uploaded file. If possible, I would also like to see the number of COLUMNS, or anything else gathered on data input :)
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Grouping tables

I would like to have the ability to group tables importes into a new Data module. This would be equivalent to the yellow folders in FM.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Filter on expressions

In Data module it would be nice to ba able to filter a table on a condition rather than tapping checkboxes. Eg. year(Invoicedate) between year(getdate())-2 and year(getdate())
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Alphabetical order of signons, when report is started

When a report is run, where more than one signon is used, they signons are not ordered alphabetically (see screenshot). Signons should always be ordered alphabetically.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query items in package should be ordered alphabetically depending on the content language

In Frameworkmanager, the query items can be ordered alphabetically with two options (A-Z or Z-A, see screenshot #1).But when using more than one language in frameworkmanager and changing the language, the sortorder stays the same, only the query i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration