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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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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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Cognos Analytics

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Add default Tabs to defualt role user

The ability to have a default user under the roles/Groups so that when each user logs in they are automatically assigned designated portal tables
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Additional ssh keys

We would the like the ability to add additional ssh keys to the Cognos VMs via the Pure App console. We would like to scp files among VMs on the local Pure rack and other racks.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameter to limit the size of the workload log

In a configuration file or in Cognos Configuration, there will be a parameter that limits the size of the workload log of the Dynamic Cube to a maximum size. If the maximum size of files is reached, no more information is written to the log worklo...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle context index accessed via "contains" operator

Would like reporting to be able to pick up and utilise an Oracle context index via the CONTAINS operator. Currently, Report Studio (and Query Studio) will convert a CONTAINS in the where clause to a LIKE, throwing away this Oracle feature.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change data source on an upgraded data set

If you have an upgraded data set which has a data source with multiple data source connections (i.e. DEV and PROD) then when you replace the package you are not prompted to select a data source connection. If you create a new data source in 11.2.1...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Providing more easy way about mapping of Dimension Alias Name and Locale

When we use TM1 cube as BI data source,we need to map Dimension Alias Name and Locale in Meta Data Wizard of FWM.If there are many dimensions,it is hard to set up them.So the customer want more easy way for setting up it.(Importing from csv etc...)
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI When a conditional palette is created, their is a option to show conditional palette values as legend. The problem is that the legend appears two times, in the default legend and the conditi...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Similar Behavior within safari whether on iPhone or iPad

Today if a user navigates Cognos and runs a report using safari on an iPad, behavior is as expected, you can pinch to zoom and pan left to right, or scroll top to bottom and see the entire report. The same behavior on an iPhone is a different expe...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow a backup Notification server in Cognos Configuration

Allow an administrator to set a backup notification mail server. When the mail server is down for any reason, all notifications from the BI server go into 'Waiting' status. You also are unable to use Event Studio to trigger a notification to an ad...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

My Activities and Schedule - Ability to turn on/off Graph Viz Chart from past/upcoming activities

Currently most of the screen gets covered by the graph/chart and user has to use slider bar to see the reports and its run details etc. Its not very convenient. There should be on/off button to enable / Disable the chart/graph so that user can use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration