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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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change the color of the font based on custom palletes for chart

Please add the feature to report studio for chart property to change the color of the font align with custom palletes
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

exporting report the PA uses as default an existing open excel file

User to open a new workbook before the view is created / downloaded
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide 11

For all previous versions of IBM Cognos an 'Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide' was available.Now, with IBM Cognos Analytics 11, IBM has drastically changed the way services work and communicate with eachother: Use of URL rewr...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IBM OpenPages Cognos Framework is missing the IS_LOCKED field

The OpenPages Cognos reporting framework is supposed to include a field called 'IS_LOCKED' for each object. This field has a value of 0 if unlocked and 1 if locked. It is NOT present in the generated framework. The field is in the underlying RV...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

Currently, any security group in Cognos has no way to search for users within the group. We'd like to have search capabilities within a security group. Since we cannot sort a group's membership, it makes it difficult to find certain individuals, e...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration