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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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Add LDAP Group Filters in Cognos Configuration

Please Allow us to Add LDAP Filter at Groups Level too. Currently, we are seeing all the Groups in LDAP which is slowing down the Cognos Login and Report Execution times, We have 10,000 Groups in LDAP and every time when user login to Cognos or pe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedules delivered to API urls and ftpd to third party servers

Currently schedules can be uploaded to Cognos servers only and emailed. There is ask from customers who want to go get Reports delivered /uploaded to their company servers and APIs
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add permissions for a group or role in order to see a specific folder when logging in Cognos analytics

For example, folder A contains the reports and the folder B contains the package of the reports. We want that any users who belongs to a specific group or role come directly to folder A when connecting to Cognos via Gateway URI and that they are n...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

· Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly

Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics backup

Hello, In Cognos Analytics, there is an option to export the entire content store. Using this option, when you import, you only have the option to import the entire content store. Can we have an option to specify the Folder\Reports to import inste...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration