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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Need more legend controls like when you have two legends of two data points provide show/hide individual legends and renaming the lengthy legends to short

Need more legend controls like when you have two legends of two data points provide show/hide individual legends and renaming the lengthy legends to short.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Remove the option of Classic View from Cognos Analytics for all users

There is an option to go to Classic View when creating a schedule. We need to remove this option since the Classic View UI has the look and feel of Cognos 10 and can be confusing to some of the users. Moreover all the functionality in classic view...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Schedule Capability on a Report Specific Level

We'd like the ability to control whether a user or users can have schedule capabilities on a report level.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Pages does not look same as 10x version

Multi select value prompt is not behaving as expected when there are default values mentioned.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change the default location of saved report in Report Authoring

By default when creating a new report and you select a package. The report is saved inside the package. We want to change the default location globally, for example in my content or not inside the package but other location.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration