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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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Expand and Collapse functionality asscociated with Grouping

Provide Expand / Collapse capability as base functionality for report development with relational data.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Authentication Methods

Provide for authentication to Azure Snowflake databases via authentication by OAuth token, or authentication by AAD with external browser, or authentication using SSHK-keypair.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Support for API Keys for REST and SDK

We are in the process of moving to CA in the cloud and we switched authentication provider from AD to Okta. This causes a problem because Cognos requires a setting change in Okta called password grant to allow a user to authenticate using REST or ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Delivered

Filter Cascading functionality in Product and sub product is expected in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Here we have two Data items such as Product and sub-Product in this it should be as parent and child releaionship for ex if we select DDA product only DDA releated subproducts Should be visible in Prompt
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos support for IBM Cloud SQL Query

Cognos Analytics does not currently support IBM SQL Query as a data source and therefore other BI tools for reporting and analytics on the IBM Cloud Object Store (COS) data that IBM SQL Query provides analytical access to.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

In dashboards, global or "for this tab" filters based on different levels from same hierarchy should cascade

Users will get a much more intuitive experience if the filters in a dashboard would cascade if they are made of different levels in the same hierarchi.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Refresh button for Data Module Source

Today it's very complicated to update source table in data module. For example we have an Excel file, which structure has been changed (added column). To update the Excel in Data Module we have to reimport the file through source view again. Even ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Restore the Report Studio interface customization feature

It is no longer possible to configure the Report Studio interface based on user profile. This is very disturbing because many customers consider that the RS interface is too rich for the users and look for a functional perimeter close to Query Stu...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Shortcut access from studios

Today its is posible to create a dashboard/report/datamodul when clicking on the breadcrumps to the right of the dataset/datamodule shortcut. But if you use new dashboard/report/datamodule you cannot see the shortcut !?
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Define the range for the Y axis on Dashboards

Include the function to fix the Y axis range on all 11.x Dashboard Visualisations.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered