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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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To update the data module when there is a change in the metadata

Whenever there is change in underlying Database , we need to refresh the metadata in Cognos data server and also need to update each data module manually
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to monitor Cognos Product roles vs. License Roles on Cognos

We use Cognos BI across our organization for reporting purposes; we use Cognos to deliver solutions to our clients; We have long time challenged with understanding how the Cognos product roles (Eg. System Admin, Authors, Consumer etc) mapped to Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cognos support for IBM Cloud SQL Query

Cognos Analytics does not currently support IBM SQL Query as a data source and therefore other BI tools for reporting and analytics on the IBM Cloud Object Store (COS) data that IBM SQL Query provides analytical access to.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add color for Min, Mid, Max in Bullet Charts on Dashboards

Reports support this feature but dashboards do not. Add this feature to bullet visual in dashboards.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Its possible to enable SFTP to transfer images

PMR 00787,999,683 Hello team Please share the images folder in CA R4. In a previous case we had access to a SFTP, we're still using that shared folder to test with cubes (mdc). Its possible to enable SFTP access for this case too. Thanks in advance.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Need flexibility use only TLS1.2 protocol

Need flexibility use only TLS1.2 protocol. Currently Cognos 10.2.2 FP5 uses TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 as SSL protocol for both internal and external communications. It also supports TLS1.2. However due to security related issues, most of my customers want...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Making it possible to show two lines (budget and actual) in Visualizations

Making it possible to show two lines (budget and actual) in Visualizations: Allthough this can be achieved by altering the basedata, an option for this would be great!
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow custom images in 11.1 Multi-tenanted

Customers using Cognos Analytics on Cloud Multi-tenanted are going to want to be able to upload or have us upload, their own images, typically for branding purposes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support of Informix 14.10 as data source

At the moment, Cognos BI 10.2.2 does not fully support Informix 14.10 as data source, which leads to problems and abortions when running reports: Obviously, Cognos query engine generates SQL code, which cannot be executed within Informix 14.10. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable TM1 Cube as a data source in Cognos Analytics Dashboard Creation

It would be great, if you enable TM1 Cube to be used as a data source for developing Cognos Dashboard in Cognos Analytics (v11).
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered