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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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Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Create a way to secured access to images for multi-tenant customers.

We have many Educational customers with multiple districts. They want to be able to secure images per district, currently this is not possible. Districts should not be able to access other districts images, which include student photos and signatu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for OpenID Connect - Identity Server 4

We would like to have support for Identity Server 4 as OpenID Connect identity provider.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule a Workspace refresh

We need the ability to to schedule a Workspace refresh so that data is refreshed in the background and doesn't have to be manually refreshed by the user each time and have to watch it refresh on screen which can take time.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manage Customizations is admin only function

We need to be able to grant developers who do visualizations and/or extensions the ability to manage and customize them. Currently the only individuals that can do this are administrators.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration