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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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Ability to download the default welcome page / logon page for modification

Customer doesn't want to develop own welcome page and logon page as well as modify any samples. The request is to be able to download the default one, modify and upload. Either replace the existing one or upload a new name.We know https://www.ibm....
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard Tool for Cubes (Dimensional Data Source) add option for Members Only view in insertable objects pane

Make it easier to use our existing cubes (dimensional data) in Dashboard tool to only see the Members Only view in the insertable objects. This option is available in the reporting tool. Right now not having this view makes the dashboard too cumbe...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Show Tabs on Dashboard when set to off, shouldn't show this tab

In CA 11.1.1 dashboards the single dashboard was removed and the tab dashboard got a tabs property to turn the tab on or off. When you turn the tab off, the All Filter and This Tab filters show. It doesn't make sense to show a this tab filters whe...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Too much wasted space between Name and location in the Portal

Notice you cannot change the column width. The location is cut off. I could hover over it but I should not have to do that. Too much wasted space between Name and location.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

SAP BW Dataconnection out of Support on 31.12.2018

A data connection to an SAP BW system is to be set up.The client SAP NetWeaver RFC library 7.20 recommended by IBM is no longer supported by SAP as of 31.12.2018. SAP refers to "SAP NetWeaver RFC Library 7.50" as the successor.This driver cannot b...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Routing Rule Capability for Cognos Data Sets

Add the ability to assign a routing rule to data sets, like we can with FM packages.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration