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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

OpenPages session should not timeout when user is working on Cognos

Some users have created self-serve report which took more than 1 hour for them and when they try to save the report it fails with Firewall Security Rejection. This is happening because of the session time out on OpenPages side. Even though, there ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Enable advanced drill behavior in interactive mode

Advanced drill behavior give report developers a fine grain of control when building reports. Interactive mode no longer supports it, which causes a number of issues. An option should also be added to allow single-click drilling, as my users are c...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support the option of time-delayed replication for subscription

there maybe meet some errant operation while maintain working. When errant transaction happened on source database, the data will be lost both at source/target database with processing CDC replication . during maintain some bank systems, customer ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics integration with Sharepoint

We would like IBM to take up and provide a detailed solution on how to integrate IBM Cognos Analytics 11 with SharePoint
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
7 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Allow Better Aggregation Stage options such as the same column with multiple aggs or count option within the calculation option.

We have a need to do multiple aggregations on the same column for a grouping. 1. Sum it, 2. Count rows. You cannot use the same column twice, and count is not even an option within the calculation section, it is a separate option and exclusive.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics - Multi-Variable Calculations

Currently unable to define a formula as multi-variate and be able to hold one value, enter in another and have it update the remaining variableEx:Margin % = (Rev – Cost)/RevenueScenario 1 – Enter Revenue or Cost and have it update Margin %Scen...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email client support

Scheduled emailed reports coming out of Cognos Analytics 11 are getting truncated when viewing in email. The attached PMR ID has all of the screenshots. We've been told by IBM support that email clients haven't been supported in Cognos Analytics (...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration