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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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do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Include a Link to Report when running Interactively

When running a report interactively and user selects Select Delivery Method/Email Report, there is no option to Include a Link - only to Attach the report
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Email Subject API

We are working in a project with the IBM software services to trigger running the report and send the report output by email using the attached HTTP POST method. However, the email subject is always the same as stored in the "deliveryOptions" bina...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

roleValue support for multi-level sets

Many OLAP technologies offer the ability to have a member property, with the same name, spanning multiple levels. At the moment there is no good way of getting that common attribute into a report when building a mulit-level set. I may have a set e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Validation error on crosstab in listcontainer with busting

Report Validation error on crosstab in listcontainer with busting Case TS001478300
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Execute Tabs Independently For JavaScript

We have a Cognos report with 4 pages, set to Run with full interactivity = No and View pages as tabs = Top Left. On each page/tab, we have an HTML Item that includes JavaScript code for formatting specific to that page. Our expectation was that on...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add option to the cookie configuration for setting the SAMESITE parameter

Web browsers are starting to assume a default setting SAMESITE=lax for cookies they receive. This default setting causes issues when a Cognos report is embedded in a site with a different domain setting. We need to be able to configure this option...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Model Issue in Order Management on Cloud

As part of our BI report requirement, we need the following information from Order management on cloud: Total Ship From Store Shorted Sales DollarsTotal Ship From Store Shorted Sales OrdersTotal Ship from Store Shorted Cancelled Units Currently ou...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

System Administrator should have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrators current have no ability to renew other users credentials on their behalf. This is very inconvenient as it would otherwise be necessary to always know users' credentials prior to renewing them.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration