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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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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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Function in Openpages to push the user's email recorded in Openpages to Cognos Analytics without developing cognos SDK

Currently the email recorded for an user in Oppenpages and the email in Cognos are not sync, a business will have to manually type their email address when trying to send report to themself. There is no way to add that for the user themself withou...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

To have SSO working with Opepages and IBM Cognos for Office

Is there a way to log into Cognos from IBM cognos for office when it is through Openage and SSO is used? Notes: we have the Login redirect URL set under Manage > Config > System and since we are on OP 8.3, it no longer support Internet explo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Drill through to Workspace Advanced Including Filters

As in request ID 70197, 70261 and 70004 I would like to see filters passed on drill through. I would also like the drill through to have the option of opening in a relational model in Workspace Advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Caption function updates dimension name in task pane but not in the PAX exploration overview

If we use the Caption option to show a different dimension name then it shows in the task pane of PAX but not in the Overview section. Both need the alias to improve useability.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

blocknonlogged should prevent nonrecoverable loads

The blocknonlogged config should block all nonlogged activity including loads. Or, an additional cfg should be added.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Mark an element in PAW to be mandatory for data input and warn when not filled in

We would like to have the ability to register certain elements in PAW to be mandatory for data input and warn enduser when not filled in. This functionality is especial important when using pick-lists and virutal dimensions.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unencrypted password in udl file

We have discovered that in udl files the password is unencrypted. When discovered during a penetration test this is considered a high risk.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Performance of complex reports against TM1 with MTQ>1

Having complex reports (ie. burst or complex reports with multiple pages and master details) against a TM1 datasource, can have major performance impact on the TM1 server, depending on the settings.Behaviors that are experienced:- each burst key e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration