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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.

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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux to supported environments

In State of Ohio we have Oracle appliances and we have been running COGNOS analytics on OEL(Oracle Enterprise Linux) for he last 7 years. it would be good if IBM can add this in the supported environments which avoids the ambiguity for State and i...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Workspace doesn't show -0.

Currently when I set the format to "#,##0;-#,##0", it doesn't show -0 in the Cube view/Workspace even if I enter Negative number like -0.33. I would like it to show -0.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to customize the welcome message of the homepage.

Hope to customize the welcome message of the homepage.Currently is possible only modify the colors of the application bar and the navigation bar, set the corporate title that is shown on the home page.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support mobile browser: Chrome and Firefox for Android, iOS

When I open IBM Cognos Analytics from Chrome on Android, the Manage tab is missing. IBM services helpdesk informed me that IBM Cognos Analytics currently only support Safari on iPad. Can mobile browser (Chrome, Firefox) be supported on Android and...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Action Button with jump back function

I can jump with Action Button command from one Page to other page, even in another book. We need the possibility to know for the user, from which book/page he came, that he can jump back. That is very important to create slim and fast applications...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration