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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Enable routing of dashboards based on data modules, the same way as reports do

When responsible for a large multi-server installation consisting of multiple dispatchers, the Cognos Analytics administrator wants control of which servers are being used for processing requests. Currently, routing rules based on data tags can be...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog E.g: Screen reader announces 'Edit options' for Edit options link
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration