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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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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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Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and space can be utilized

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and valuable space can be utilized.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Customization of tooltips to show datapoint images, description, sales and other visualizations like top 5 products for that datapoint in Tooltip

Tooltip actions like whenever you mouse hover on any viz datapoint should show other tabs/vizs means give ability to manually edit tooltip text/data what to show or not. for example we have a chart with all product category sales and whenever you ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

"Use My Credentials" option is not available to normal users in Cognos 11.0.7 Environment

"Use My Credential" option is missing for normal users in Cognos 11.0.7 Environment, the option is available to only administrator.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Az.Combination Evolution

System: ReporterActor: User needing new feature -------------------------------------Attached the screenshot for the example.Red dots are connected by a line which is transparent. The actual behavior is : On hidden the lines connecting the dots in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Many Time and Relative Time changes needed in Cube Designer

Several Relative Time issues enhancements needed • We need the ability to hide any relative time that is automatically added when relative time is set to true. Some are not what the business wants and for some of them the %'s are not wanted eith...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Query Studio filtering functionality to WSA/Cognos 11

Query Studio contains the “Matches SQL Pattern” operator that allows users to very easily input multiple partial values when filtering on a field. WSA/11 offers the same operator but only allows one value to be added at a time (even if using t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Add In - RefreshAllData via VBA

With RefreshAllDataAndFormat and RefreshAllData you cann refresh data in an Excel Spreadsheet via VBA. Both applie to the entire Spreadsheet. I use some Spreadsheet in which two or more reports are embedded. It would be good if you can update the ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics -Search for active directory groups in OIDC OKTA namespace in Cognos when OKTA and active directory synced

System: Cognos analytics security and access restriction with OIDC configuration Required feature : Require to search for Active directory groups in OKTA OIDC namespace configured in cognos when OKTA is synced with Active Directory Description :Co...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration