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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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Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Disabled alerts are not in keyboard tab order

Disabled elements in the report or dashboard (example zooming pecentage option) are not in the keyboard tab order. Zoom button is disabled on all the dashboard. Previously a ticket have been logged for this issue to IBM. IBM Responded "This is dis...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Non Unique Button

Non-Unique button, the save icon and dropdown have similar description as another button. This has been populating in all the dashboards. previously the ticket was logged with IBM, IBM Says this is not really considered as bug, if you click the dr...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Repository Oracle 23

Hello, When do you plan to support Oracle 23for datastage repository? Thanks regards
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support Microsoft SQL Server 2022

Microsoft recently released their new database server.Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is neither tested nor listed as supported query/ content store database for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4. Looking forward to see this as supported datasource for IBM Co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Informix to HammerDB benchmarking tool

HammerDB is a leading benchmarking tool to benchmark database performance. This tool enables DBA to verify configuration of the OS/database and assess the impact of any hardware or database configuration changes. HammerDB supports DB2 however ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 load ALLOW READ ACCESS support for column organized table

Currently, if a db2 load is happening on a column organized table, users are NOT able to read the data from same table until the load is finished. It's inconvenience for the customer and its users in their daily operation. Thus, the customer wants...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration