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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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Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

JDBC and ODBC driver for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

We see a lot of customers moving to D365 from AX2009 and AX2012, most of the customers have a datavarehouse between their Cognos solution, but nearly every customer also have the need for live ad-hoc reporting as well, when they have month closing...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name of relative times in the Query using dynamic cubes

When using the relative times from a dynamic cube, the name of the period doesn't change in the query. The report show the right period when running the report, but it shows the period from the time of the report building date.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Personnalized Session Parameter

We need to add a Session Parameter available in Frame Work Manager or Report. The purpose is to personnalize a parameter by environnment production, validation, etc in the Cognos configuration context and use it in FM or Report.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Table - De-/Select all elements in the filter

I'm missing an option to select and deselect alle elements in the filter dialog of the data table.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add hotkeys to interact with WCA context input

Add hotkeys to: Use selected text as context in a fresh chat Use selected context in the current chat Focus the chat text input Would really improve the usability as it wouldn't force your hands off the keyboard, it could also potentially push peo...

HF timeout interval required for querying application demand on cloud clusters

SSM was unresponsive due to the "select" issue we have seen before... Investigating why symA can not recover from the fact that one SSM is not responding Need enhancement for the symA requestor logic to deal with unresponsive SSM of one applic...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Home screen list of Projects should be sorted by most recently changed projects

Currently the list is sorted by descending date at which the projects were created. This is not particularly useful. We have many more projects than the 5 that will fit on the home page list. The last modified date of a project would be a much bet...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted