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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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Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics connectivity to Informatica Data Vault

We are looking to connect to Informatica Data Vault to build some reports in Cognos Analytics
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

facility to hide 'send report by email' option

Please provide facility to hide the 'send report by email' option, so that users will not be able to select this.(this facility was there in Cognos 10). The schedule reports with 'email' option selected goes to waiting state and never get executed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Container for New Cognos Mobile App

Does the development team for Cognos Analytics for Mobile have anything on the app’s roadmap to add support for Intune app protection policies? According to the developer guidance on github, it would require the mobile app developer to make use of...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Planned for future release

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Use Search and recent with rest API

Hi. The idee is to extend cognos to exteral interfaces with for funconality like adding "recent" into a SharePoint portal. This would be like an RSS feed. It should also be possible to use search from external portals.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PRS-NOP-1056 error using tree prompt with multiple datasource connections

Client has datasource with multiple connections. When report is run user must choose one. When there is a tree prompt the datasource prompt is bypassed and the tree is displayed. Expanding the tree causes a PRS-NOP-1056 error. Bug is same as COGCQ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'.

Client Esri: Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'. When running a report Cognos forces the browser to use 'IE 5 Quirks mode' (called 'Quirks mode' in IE 8 and 9 and 'IE 5 Quirks mode' in IE 10 and 11). This c...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Support for Azure SQLDB instance

JNetDirect driver is fairly old in Cognos BI, so it would very nice to have does updated to support using Microsoft Azure SQL DB instances as contentstore.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow tenant switch without the loss of my content

Setup=====We use a multi-tenant environment for different customers with the same database.There are some special customers (service provider), they have access for more than one tenant (but not for all).For this purpose we are using a customized ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration