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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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Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans - Scheduling Tasks

Reoccurring schedules for tasks Carhartt Business users will use Applications and Plans on a monthly cycle. Currently updating due dates in a task is very manual. Each task in the plan has to be opened individually to assign the start and end date...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide options for direct css manipulation in customisations

Since upgrading from V11.1.7 to V11.2.4 we have encountered an issue where icons rendered in an existing customisation (sidebar menu) are now appearing much smaller than they were prior to the upgrade. Our investigation suggests that this can be o...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

WKC data is not protected in a sensitive project

The data what we tested in assets are as follows. data from WKC in a project As a project editor, I can use the data without viewing the Patient ID, because I don't have the authorization to view it. So, it is a very important and helpful m...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Understanding usage of catalog assets by business users interacting with the catalog

It would be good to understand if our cataloged assets are actually being used by business users. Which Assets are being used more than others. This would allow us to plan for future resource allocation and what we need to keep in our catalog vs w...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Configure a user-defined value for disabling all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing after a number of abends

When a certain number of abends occurs, while processing IFI requests, processing of all IFI request and MONITOR trace is disabled, requiring an action from Db2 operator/system administrator to be resumed. Today this number of abends, that disable...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Capture Remote Host & Remote IP for all activities

In the user activity logs. The Remote Host & Remote IP is only captured for the successfull login events. These are not being captured for the failed login attempts and for the logout attempts. From a security prespective, it is very important...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Is a defect