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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Disable viewing subsets for selected Planning Analytics dimensions

Having many subsets in Planning Analytics dimensions is very heavy for Cognos Analytics when loading the package. We would like to chose if CA have to load subsets for a dimension in a cube or not: for some dimensions is very helpful to see all su...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Save as Report View" option on prompt page

The various toolbar option at the top right corner of the Cognos Viewer output page can only be utilized for the HTML format type reports. For the Excel and PDF format report as they are directly downloaded or opened without any output Cognos View...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update embeded websphere server for CORS support

The cross origin resource sharing (CORS) cannot be enable in the WebSphere 8.5.5.8 server embedded in Cognos 11. Based on WebSphere site, the CORS are supported on WebSphere version 8.5.5.9.In Cognos 10, it was possible to configure the CORS heade...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for TLS 1.3 in Cognos Analytics 11.0

To allow the product to support current security standards, TLS 1.3 should be added to the security options for Cognos Analytics 11.0.x
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Island (Enterprise Browser)

Many companies are migrating to "Island" for increased security, and we would like this browser to be supported by Cognos. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to Trigger

Allow users to subscribe to receive a report based on a trigger schedule
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA: Error correcting algorithm for invalid members/MUNs

Hello we would expect having same behavior as planing analytics workspace as using same restapi connector in CA - if an MDX query comes back with members not found - perform a test 'drop bad tuples' query to check all members with parents (aa^bb) ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration