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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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Ability to hide option to run job in all at once mode

Hello, to avoid overloading the system especially by one user, we need to have option to disable/hide option to run jobs as all at once. This option is too dangerous as one user can create large jobs and take all the application resources.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For Full Installations set the default to offset by 100 instead of 5 when Port 9300 is in use

For Full Cognos Analytics Installations, offset the port by 100 when the default port is used. See this IBM Support topic for more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Statistical Distribution Bins

There is no good functions for statistics: splitting a distribution into bins.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

General Filters need more functionality

The general filters that go at the TOP of the DashBoard need more functionality. They only allow clicking on the options, but there should be options that should be exclusive and unique, por example a Y/N, the filtre should be letting you optional...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PowerPlay should alert user of unsupported browser

Please enhance PowerPlay to warn users when their browser is unsupported. It would help reduce our support load greatly and reduce user frustration with PowerPlay.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Member Unique Names in Member Tree in dashboards (on hover or as property)

Provide property for every member in the tree in dashboarding using OLAP sources to see the MUN (member unique name). Show it also as popup on hover. Its absolutely crucial to see the mun to uniquely identify the right element as captions are not ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to customize the welcome message of the homepage.

Hope to customize the welcome message of the homepage.Currently is possible only modify the colors of the application bar and the navigation bar, set the corporate title that is shown on the home page.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support mobile browser: Chrome and Firefox for Android, iOS

When I open IBM Cognos Analytics from Chrome on Android, the Manage tab is missing. IBM services helpdesk informed me that IBM Cognos Analytics currently only support Safari on iPad. Can mobile browser (Chrome, Firefox) be supported on Android and...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration