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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


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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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Calculate distance using geospatial objects

We want to be able to calculate who travels the longest distance using postal codes and who travels the longest distance most frequently.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please add status of unatteneded install of Cognos Analytics

Cognos BI 10.x had a status window during unattended installation. Cognos Analytics does not. Only way I can see if its done is to monitor the javaw.exe process via Task Manager in windows
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics permit/denied Job creation

currently all users can create jobs, I wish I could decide, as in many other Cognos tools, to whom to give or to whom to remove this functionality . No workaround. Need to create a capabilities to manage this functionality. User can create a Jo...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Database column description for QuickInfo

Most database tables contain descriptions for their columns. These descriptions should be accessible for Cognos to fill the QuickInfo-Box for model users.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PH21885 CLOUD MOBILE REDIRECT ISSUE WHEN USING IBMID/W3ID

When connecting to mobile from a cloud instance using the IBMid /W3id authentication we see odd behaviours in the way mobile redirects the user. Logs have been attached for further review by Brock. 1. Download the mobile app on any device2. Try co...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

(solved) Be able to upload images to Cloud multitenant, so I could use them in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs

(solved) In Cloud mutitenant, the images I use in Report works with HTML only. It won't work in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs. It's because the rendering occurs inside the Report Server. The images have to be located inside the Report Server...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Create save point (view) of a report that include interactive report actions by the user.

As a user, I would like to be able to navigate a report interactively and save the report as if it was a view and be able to recall it with the initial saved parameters.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for viewing spatial layers in Cognos RS

Support for viewing spatial layers in Cognos RS
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for strongest SSL/TLS ciphers to Cognos Mobile in order to improve security

Add the strongest SSL/TLS ciphers support fo Cognos Mobile when accessing data through http server.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration