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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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Value prompt should also have option to typein parameter value

Cognos report users should have both typein and value prompt as single feature. In addition to select from the drop down, user should have the capability to type in the chose and select the value.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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...
about 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...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Stacked bar chart with lines

Stacked bar chart with lines is an important visualization for plan, target, actual during the year.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dimensional Calculations.

Dimensional calculations. Like delta variations, difference of cases/KPI between two months, two years…. Current month the calculation or the measure is 10% higher than last month. Percentage of cases based on the different categories. Compare the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to remove 'Send report to mobile service' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send report to mobile service' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send report to mobile service' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Mobile' capability. Current...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Changing the sources of existing tabs in Cognos Dashboard.

When any changes are done to the packages and created a new version of it but the visualizations of the dashboard will be of old version of package.It is difficult to change the objects of all the visualizations to the new one.So,is it possible to...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Hide/Show visualization INSIGHTS options

By assessing C11.1 R4 version, We noticed that the INSIGHTS option were irrelevant in some business cases. Figures were still "computable" and computed by C11.1.4 but they were irrelevant from business point of view and useless. Contacting IBM sup...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to have 'PIN' option for security under capabilities

Using Cognos 11.1, Users can now Pin a graph; We need a way where we can limit the user capability. This will be a huge help to limit Pin Access.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration