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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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Suprres empty rows threshold

Hello, In report studio, when talking about suppressing empty rows, there are only two options : keep empty rows or suppress empty rows.The threshold in this case is by default 0. We would like the possibility to define a threshold for suppression...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 10.2 Transformer - Cloak option and display in Report studio/Analysis studio

To not have security characters or that those characters are considered as numeric to be able to do a suppress row and columns
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Elapsed time to Dynamic Query Analyzer

When the Aggregate Advisor completes its analysis within Dynamic Query Analyzer, the only reference to time is the start time. There is no completion time or elapsed time.I would like to know how long the analysis took, so please add completion ti...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading function needs to provide ability to cascade a default selection as well. ParamValue needs more flexibility

Prompts that not only cascade w/ other prompts but also allow prompts to trigger default selection of other prompts. (ie: Geography prompt when selected North America it will trigger the territories prompt to be populated with the North America te...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter on more than 1 query item thats not in report body of workspace

In workspace, we cannot filter on more than 1 query item if those query items are not in the report body. We do not display all the items in the body everytime, but if we donot include them in body we are unable to filter on them. We are restricte...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM, can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" . It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change password at first login for OID LDAP

We want end user will change password of his/her log-in when first time logged in Cognos portal.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Linking JN into a CA environment even with non-continuous protocol types.

Signal Iduna (German Insurance company) obtains their Cognos Analytics (on prem) out of an IBM Cloud Pak for Data license, which contains Cognos Analytics. In the Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.x bundle, CA 11.2.2 is the included version, which is current...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Fix Custom Calculation validation error

We recently created a Case to ask about a validation error that occurs in Cognos' "Create Calculation" editor. Those error details are summarized below, and in this linked Case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002b4qa4AAA/on-custom-cal...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS search results secured based on user security

When users use COGNOS search functions they are able to see folders/reports they do not have access to. They then click and get access errors and contact support because they want access or are confused why they cannot access things available in s...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration