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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to lock the position of widgets

When I am designing a dashboard I often find it frustrating to have everything all lined up and then I change a title or something on a widget and accidentally move it a little and have to go and check or adjust all the positioning again. It would...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase Number of AD User Groups that OKTA can pass to Cognos Analytics

The issue is with the actual number of AD user groups that OKTA can pass through to Cognos. We have 321 AD user groups at Mattel and the current OKTA limit is 100. This issue is delaying our migration to the IBM Cognos Cloud. We need the following...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Cognos BI to have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent

Cognos should have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent. For example, the embed reports were changed, the agent execution time was changed, the email recipients were changed, etc, there should have a record generated so Cogno...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More Generic Error message for CAF - Reflective XSS

With recent penetration testing, the IBM security team thought that the CAF (which was enabled) was allowing Reflective XSS. After feedback from the CA developers, it was learned that the CAF is working as designed and no scripts are able to do an...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration