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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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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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Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Unmark button for - with fraud or genuine marked - transactions

We are using IBM Safer Payments 6.5.0.02 It should be possible to undo markings that have been set incorrectly by mistake. Today you can only replace one marker with another (Genuine <-> Fraud). The context menu should offer an unmark function.
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

EnableSandboxDimension parameter causing processes to fail

We identified a problem when we enabled the EnableSandboxDimension parameter in the tm1s.cfg file. When we adjusted this parameter to true, we noticed that several of our processes began to fail, and upon further investigation, we discovered that ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted