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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:


Search existing ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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BI multitenancy features required for image handling in BI Studios

In a multi-tenant environment end customers need to be fully separated.Currently if Report Studio or Query Studio is available to end customers, adding images to a report shows the same folder content for each customer. Therefore end customers are...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PROMPT USERS WICH JOIN RELATIONSHIP TO USE WITH MULTIPLE RELATIONS BETWEEN DIMENSIONS

PROMPT USERS WICH JOIN RELATIONSHIP TO USE WITH MULTIPLE RELATIONS BETWEEN QUERY SUBJECTS In Framework manager , you now have the option to use in(DQM) Contextsentive join selection = Explicit and Use in Joinpath=True However this is hardcoded in ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove list of Recent Projects listed in FM welcome screen

In a multi-tenancy (shared) environment for Framework Manager, allow the need to remove the list of Recent Projects (files) listed on the Welcome Screen. Currently the default setting is 4: <Preference Name="RecentProjectListSize">4</Pref...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

pdf drill through for Edge Browser

users used to be able to in IE have reports in pdf format and click on embedded report links and have them open successfully. support has verified this is delivered again for v11.2 with Chrome or Firefox but not Edge browser. This will remain brok...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Relative date enhancement

In K-12 and Higher education organizations, we have terms. Would like to be able to setup a term to be able to compare it like current month to previous month, using a concept like relative dates.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Preserving of the server .xml settings when starting from commandline in Linux

Preserve the server .xml settings when we choose the option use ./cogconfig.sh –s to start service. This saves the server.xml losing all the changes (we use it for configuring AJP port, by uncommenting the setting and sometimes changing the AJP ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage - display query subject filter name rather than 'Embedded Filter#'

In IBM Cognos Lineage filters defined in Query Subjects in Framework Manager packages are displayed as e.g. 'Embedded Filter 1' rather than displaying the defined name of the filter in the package. As this information is not visible for the lineag...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support for EBS volume encryption

Cognos Analytics deployed on AWS cloud EC2 instances. The ability to use EBS encryption for data at rest
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration