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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

  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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Repair PAX to enable formulas in the Excel cell (such as SUBNM or DBRW,etc.)

If open Custom Report (or Dynamic Report) then the figures don’t refresh using PAX IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.46
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable kerberos/certificate authentication for Cognos content store in z/OS DB2

When building Cognos content store in z/OS DB2, we need to provide id/password on Cognos configuration portal for DB2 connections. We don't have known password for most IDs in z/OS due to security policy and most DB2 applications have supported Ke...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL query subject not getting updated anyhow.

We are not able to update the query items of the query subject in cognos report studio using the sql .If you are using sql then you have to create a new query subject to get the data items available in the query .if you tried to use the existing q...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Glass UI Search Functionality

Currently Cognos Analytics uses costly LDAP searches when browsing a namespace.If you search for an individual user however the search behaviour fast and as expected. If however the result of the search would require you to adjust the search, then...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide source variable for Chart legends, labels and other elements

In a multi-lingual environment we need to change the titles, legends and axes labels based on the user language. Currently the only way to do this is with Conditional Block which makes maintenance challenging.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to hide date of report

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, the date under a report was hidden. In Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 the date of when a report is created is shown under the report, as shown in the attached image.For some of our users this date is confusing be...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use credential manager to save the ID to be used tos ave report outputs

Use different credential in windows server to save the report output in the external report share
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics, have to change zoom for it to appear when using Cognos Analytics to create a report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration