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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Search for a report by modified date leaving the report name blank

The Search feature: I cannot use the filter unless I first enter a name for the report I am searching for. I want to search for a report or dashboard I created, but I can't remember the name. But I do know when I created it. However, the Search fe...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Cognos Data Module Editor for general use as query generation frontend in CP4D e.g. as a component in Data Management Console

Intro: HUK came up with a requirement to use Cognos (-Analytics) Frontend as a modeling tool do define complex queries. Their use case was mostly a data preparation / ELT which is not well suited for Cognos. But they have sound knowledge performin...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DCadmin.bat dynamic cube utility needs to support SSO

dcadmin.bat does not work for environments with SSO..Baxter has a large complicated global multiple dispatcher environment which is now bring on dynamic cubes... administration of many Dynamic cubes is very painful from within Cognos, sometimes im...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using ECDSA root for RSA certificaten

To secure Cognos analytics internally, an internal RSA certificate has been created. The root of our internal certificates are all ECDSA. We can not change this, because then all our certificates no longer work. It would be good if Cognos Analytic...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Build SQL Statement with host variables

Let’s review this scenario. You just implemented a new COBOL program into production. But some users are not getting the data they expected. You finally realize an SQL statement you are running is not returning any rows. You’re sure the statement ...
9 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration