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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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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.

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


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OData as a data source for Cognos Analytics

We are deploying a new SAP CRM and SD system, and already have SAP FI/CO. We have, and will extend our OData API on the SAP Gateway. It would be ideal to be able to consume these OData sources in FM and/or lightweight modeling in Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow 3 different options for statement concentration.

We would like 3 options for statement concentration. It is importantthat all three options are available. 1. No concentration. (already exists) 2. Concentrate queries that have no parameter markers (Current DB2 concentration) 3. Concentrate querie...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add the LogviewV2 utility back in CA 11.x to read server logs

Can't seem to find a CA equivalent to the logviewV2 utility that was bundled with Cognos 10.X. My understanding is that log viewer was an internal application that wasn't meant to be integrated into Cognos. It was a tool for IBM dev/support that w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, t...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Email notification: Add an option "on who should be notified when a report fails and also to include the report execution status like Success/Fail in the notification"

Currently, we don't get any notification when a report (either scheduled or non scheduled report like for batch mode report execution) fails so it should be good if we can have "add an option on who should be notified when a report fails for the e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create and maintain Metric cubes from Workspace

It was mentioned on the Designing Workspace UIs in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace event on 29/10/2020 that the Metric chart will be added back into workspace after it was removed for the Cognos Analytics charting engine. If Metrics are coming ba...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Zoom/scaling issue in contributor portal

Hi Team, We are using below IBM PA versions in our Environment. Planning Analytics Local: 2.0.9.14 PASS: 2.0.82 PAW: 2.0.83 PAX: 2.0.82 We are having white line issue appearing in dashboards (PAX Report) published on the contributor/pm...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Writing back the data quality results to an external database i.e. SQL server

We have a couple of users who have requested for us to connect to their in-country reservoir instances (SQL servers), as they would like to write back their data quality and profiling results in there. This will give them more control of their res...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists