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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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Authorize multiple custom menu-items (extension) in navigation panel as alternative to portal pages

In Cognos 10 we made use of portal pages a lot. Since these portal pages are not available anymore in Cognos Analytics 11 (at least there not actively supported) we are looking for a good alternative. Our goal is to create a menu structure within...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Chart Data Field Options to include Months

It would be useful to display some data in charts by Months, based off a selected date field on the object. In our example, we want to display Reg Changes by Status grouped by effective date. So we create a filter on the Reg Change to only pull In...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

General behaviour of opening the set editor from Pafe Task Pane.

Problem 1 : If you select edit set from a specific subset then you don’t get to that subset, you get to the default (if defined) or the All Roots, not a logical step. Even more confusingly the header for the set editor gives the set name you opene...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Ability to select the ranges for heat palette for geographic heatmap

Ability to define ranges for heat palette in mapping capabilities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SQLCODE -180 (invalid date/time) - add identifier for hostvariable.

When it comes to SQLCODE -180 (invalid value for date/time/timestamp) due to wrong data in an input-hostvarible currently DB2 issues following SQLCODE: SELECT * FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES WHERE CREATEDTS = ? Hostvariable holds 'SCHUBIDU' DSNT408I SQLCO...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date picker in Contributor window to show current date instead of 01/01/1899

Users will not have to click 100+ time to arrive to current 2023 year in date picker for every new entry they have to input.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

After enabling schedule for report job it should only get triggered at next scheduled time even if it has a pending backlog.

Hi Team, On production, we have one scheduled report job. Which usually runs at 7 PM AUST. Due to deployment activities on production, we disabled that schedule on 21-06-2023. There was some backlog data present that needed to be processed ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Use generic "From" emails for specific departments

One department within our organization would like emails for only their reports to come from a different email address than the Cognos default, and they do not want emails sent from one person/developer either.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration