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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Fix the Cognos Mashup Services (CMS) so that they can render/retrieve the newer Cognos Analytics (CA) visualization objects

We used to use CMS to embed CA content within our own web pages. Specifically we would use CMS to retrieve report parts, assigning a name within the report design and then using that name to retrieve the HTML fragment through CMS. CMS still works,...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Url to run reprots from Sharepoint in the cloud enhancemetn

When a report is published the SharePoint cloud and passing a userid and pw with the parameters does not work in the cloud. This works on prem but not in the cloud. See case TS002005281 and TS003114744. The reports run sometime and when they do, i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to deactivate the export functionalities within PowerPlay Studio for specific User

We want to disable the exporting functionality for a specific user or group in cognos analytics (PowerPlay Studio).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Looking for full support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical Dimension data in Workspace Advanced.

Currently, the support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical (TM1) Dimension data seems to be missing or limited to one member at a time in WA. We understand that IBM has committed to “Differences in Cognos Workspace Advanced will be bridged...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit Scope of Explorations

Explorations often return large numbers of data columns (attributes and measures) that are not relevant to an exploration. The user is inundated with large numbers of data items making it difficult for the Exploration logic to produce desirable re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inclusion of missing area names for Kuwait

In Cognos version 11.0.12, for the country Kuwait , the list of master records with Area names for Map visualization is not exhaustive. Hence, the area names received from other source systems like SAP, are different from that of Cognos Map. As a ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Failover Support to LDAP Provider

Customer wants to be able to add a second or third LDAP Server to an LDAP authentication source in IBM Cognos Configuration so an LDAP failure can be handled directly from Cognos.This requires in turn that the LDAP Provider receives Load Balancing...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

You can only jump from an executed WorkspaceAdvanced report into Report Studio

If a report designed in WSA is executed it should show the Workspace Advanced Icon in the menu in the upper right corner instead the Report Studio Icon and should jump to the WSA-Studio. Not every WSA consumer has the rights and the ability to wor...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On dashboard lists visualizations sort nulls at end of list.

When sorting a column on a dashboard list, provide the option to sort null values to the end of the list.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration