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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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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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Restrict Basic Signon for Internal Use Only

We would like to restrict our Cognos Basic Sign-On page to be available to only internal users (ie. restrict this page to only the internal Network). External users should only be able to login via the Single Sign-On page. We are not able to restr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide updated and more detailed documentation of Cognos BI Audit Log tables and columns

Our client has a specific need to track what end users are receiving emailed report results generated out of Cognos. One way to identify these individuals appears to be by querying the email lists that are logged in the Audit Log database “AGENT...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Where can I find audit trail of actions performed on a Dynamic Cube. STOP/START/REFRESH etc. PMR 04729,7TD,000

Where can I find audit trail of actions performed on a Dynamic Cube. STOP/START/REFRESH etc. PMR 04729,7TD,000
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to set preferred user name than generated Informix user

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our field fail to install cognos analytics using easy install option in some customer environments for POCs as customers have limitation of not using local users or simple user names such as Informix. When ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repair PAX to enable formulas in the Excel cell (such as SUBNM or DBRW,etc.)

If open Custom Report (or Dynamic Report) then the figures don’t refresh using PAX IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.46
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration