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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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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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Implement pop-up notification for user session inactivity timeouts.

This would be useful for users when they are programing a report and exceed the session inactivity timeout. If a user is spending time programming a report or dashboard and their session times out they will lose their work when the go to save. If ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities. It would help in maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment. You currently has less to nothing as a tool to see all roles and capibilities. Ca...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename Auto-Generated Relative Time Members (Cube Designer)

Within Cube Designer, the ability to rename the auto-generated relative time members would be useful, for example to change the label of "Year to Date" to "Current Year To Date", or "CYTD".
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard, data driven number of charts - repeater like functionality, like exist in report
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using?

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using in Cognos Connection? this fuctionality use to exist in v.10 , where we can see datasource by clicking on more properties of package. Case : TS001410982 was created for same and was suggested to su...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Page settings for notifications

Please add the ability for displaying a limited number of rows of notifications as set by the administrators. Further notifications can be accessed by a Next and or Back link to load the next set of messages, or to go back to the previous set. Thi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing ability to change default options in run as tab and schedule tab

We are missing option to hide/disable/change default options in schedule tab and ran as tab. These can not be modified as of today, in C10 it was possbile to modify those by changing cognos template files. Today they are not part of the interface ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Members in the data tree (hide/disable)

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos 11.1.7 and we would like to control "Members in the data tree" for Dashboards (with Package as Data Source) to have an ability to decrease the load on our server (in case we will have performance issues ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration