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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Ability to Drill Through for all packages in multi-package reports

Drill through is supported only for the default package and unavailable for the rest of the packages used in the report. We would like to be able to define drill through links for various components built in a report with multiple packages.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When copying or moving a report, modify the warning message "an item with this name already exists"

It should display the report name in the user's language set, or even better both the name in default language and also the displayed language so the user can easily locate the object in question.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Obsolete Functionality Enabled

Obsolete Functionality Enabled :The application includes some outdated or unused functions that are not necessary for the product's intended users. Remove any unneeded functionality in order to reduce the attack surface. This was discovered during...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Insecure Log Management [OWASP Top Ten 2013 - A5]:

The application logs sensitive information to the user's local disk with no protections for the files or masking for sensitive data inside them. It logs regardless of need and does not seem to have any automated purge process to destroy old data. ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request designed as POST is accepted as GET:

The application will accept and process a request sent as a GET, even though it is designed to be used as a POST. A GET request exposes any included parameters in browser history, printed pages, and server logs. A POST prevents those exposures. En...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use PageNumber function in a variable to render the object conditionally

Product: Cognos Report Studio 10.1.1 Currently, according to defect COGCQ00017674 , PageNuber() and PageCount() report function can not be used in a varaible. We wants these function to use these functions in a variable so he can render the object...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration