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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,

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  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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Data Module: Combine fact tables (like a presentation layer)

I want to have the capabilities to regroup measures(columns) from different tables into one folder. In other words, having the possibility of using a presentation layer which reference the measures. At the moment, I have to make my user navigate t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

Copy and paste Prompt page to another report

In the version 11.1.3 is impossible to copy and paste prompt page from one report to another. In the version 10.2.2 is a very useful feature, can you enable in the new version?
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translation of functions and operators as per user preferences language

The report functions were translated according to the installation language in Serie 7It would be great to have the same in Cognos Analytics
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create distribution lists within a tenant

In Cognos 11, Distribution Lists can only be created from the Cognos namespace. This prevents tenant client administrators from managing within their own tenant. We would like the ability to have our own client tenants maintain their administratio...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

COGNOS ANALYTICS : Synchronization of emails from an LDAP directory under Cognos Analytics for PAW security

Hello, We are in the following versions of Planning Analytics (PAL, PAW, PAX and PASS) in our DEVELOPMENT/RECEPTION/PRODUCTION environment: - PAL 2.0.9.11 - PAW 2.0.73 - PASS 2.0.73 - PAX 2.0.73 We use Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 (CA) only for Plannin...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

OIDC Support - use access token for claims

Currently Cognos passes claims in id token along with user information. implementation at many customer applications is using access token for claims. request to provide this option.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a variable that limits available query service memory per user

Customers with large dynamic cubes and a fully self-serving reporting approach start to face issues of rampant DQM usage that causes Overloaded scenarios even on Enterprise Class Servers with 1 TB of Memory
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration