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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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Crosstab Option to display "0" (ZERO) instead of "No Value" when the cell does not have value

The default behavior of Crosstab is to display "(no value)" for the cells without value. It would be nice to have option to display "0" ZERO instead.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Tibco DV Support

Please certify Tibco DV as a supported data source since Cognos previously supported Composite (aka Cisco Information Server, which is what Tibco was before getting rebranded.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Data Module Join Relationship Expression Editor for Complex Relationships

Kronos Database records are created using a FromEffectiveDate and a ToEffectiveDate, the most efficient way to query something as of a specific date is to say that date is between the FromEffectiveDate and the ToEffectiveDate. In Framework Manager...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

How to restrict only selected file extensions in CA 11.0.9

Hi Team, We want to restrict only below list of file extensions to be uploaded in the CA 11.0.9 . Please let us know how this can be implemented. .xls .xlsx.txt .csv
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Re-orientation of row selection in grid Dashboar

We have a dashboard with cross filters and table grid with rows. Whenever we select some row in table grid, its get highlighted. When we select some other cross-filter which can accommodate that particular row ( cross-filter can drive this grid ),...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

css in common view spec.json not loading

I wrote a custom control that includes a view with perspective "common".When I use the cssStyles attribute, the following happens: - On the login page, Cognos tries to load the css, but it gets an error 401, so the css is not loaded.- when logging...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

ENH: Add ability to save the state of frozen column/row headers between report runs

When running an HTML report in Cognos viewer there is an option in the context menu to freeze the row or column headings. These options need to be selected every time a report is run. For reports where the user always has to scroll a lot and consi...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

API should be updated above API 20 in Cognos 10.2.1 to get Salesforce Login Histroy

We established a connection between IBM Cognos 10.2.1 and salesforce (SFDC Sandbox.) -We see all objects when we import the tables in Framework manager but not the LoginHistory object (Table) via the IBM Cognos/SFDC connection. But i am able to vi...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Alerts in Cognos Mobile for OLAP data sources

In the mobile app we cannot currently set Alerts on visualizations that have an OLAP data source. In our case, most of our dashboards/visualizations are currently against PA cube data sources, and we are keen to use Alerts but can't. This impedes ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Delivered

Able to set Autocomplete attribute off on main login page.

Our Penetration testers found that the autocomplete attribute was not set for the password field on the main login page. After I opened up a support ticket IBM stated: Unfortunately, development won't accept missing 'autocomplete=off' as a defect....
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered