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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.

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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Most trivial function: SEARCH!

Cognos Analytics on cloud 11.1 1) I'm at creating a new report. 2) I'm at Report > Queries > Query1 3) when I'm adding filters to the query and I want to choose columns from the data module/package or whatever data source. example: DETAIL FI...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add Home and Return Buttons in Legacy Portal

Have customized portal pages as per Legacy portal where users do not have capability to click on Home or Return buttons as they do not exist.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Dicing to the Dashboard Table Widget

The table only highlights valid items.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optional OR-based filters in report studio

In report studio, query filters are AND-combined by default. You can configure every filter to be optional, so that if the parameter is not filled, the filter is ignored. It would be useful if a similar way would work for OR-based filters. Our cas...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Multiple Data Elelements on a Vizualization Mouse Over

I have a combination chart. I am displaying the Qty of changes per month. I would also like to show the percentage and some other data elements that would describe the item being reported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

No popups, in the Cognos mobile app on iPad, in drill-throughs with a single definition

Currently in the version of Cognos Analytic Mobile (Version 11.0.0.7 Build 11.0.0.8.8) during a drill-through with a single definition a popup is displayed to then select the only definition of drill and make it. This choice can, however, be misle...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom folders should be included in OPEN and SAVE dialog boxes...

If you are customizing a cognos analytics portal and remove the teamfolder to simplify the handling for the enduser (Extensions), there is a problem with accessing things between two customfolders. Example: Create a Reportview in one cutomfolder...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

controller datasource

Provide support for Controller datasource in Cognos analytics
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements To DB2 or IDAA or Cognos to allow Cognos queries to accessing DB2 to be offloaded to IDAA

We are currently in the process of deploying Cognos on z/OS and are using DB2 z/OS as the metadata repository and, for some applications, the targert DBMS for reporting. Some of the SQL being sent to DB2 is fairly CPU intensive and would be a good...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration