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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.

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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Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

Currently, any security group in Cognos has no way to search for users within the group. We'd like to have search capabilities within a security group. Since we cannot sort a group's membership, it makes it difficult to find certain individuals, e...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

group queries (e.g. in folders)

our customer often uses more than 20 queries in his reports and wants to group the queries (e.g. in folders) to locate relevant queries faster for easier maintenance of his reports.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Header navigation not working in accessibility report

We are using classic viewer in an accessible report. We were unable to navigate to different headers (H1, H2...) even though Headers are setup in Tables Cells. Currently we are running JAWS-2019 version in firefox 68.0 ESR. Below keys are also not...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Functionality already exists

Displaying active report output without addressbar or customise the URL in the addressbar

Hi, We got a requirement to customise the dashboard's URL and my question is once I have built the Custom URL when publishing this to External Customers, is there a way that not to show the full URL in the browser but a cut down version so the use...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration