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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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Cognos Analytics

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Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Application is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks

Without proper input validation and output encoding, information systems are susceptible to cross-site scripting, which may result in unauthorized access or malicious attacks against the user.Hence the Hyperlink should be temporarily removed or hy...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Add In - RefreshAllData via VBA

With RefreshAllDataAndFormat and RefreshAllData you cann refresh data in an Excel Spreadsheet via VBA. Both applie to the entire Spreadsheet. I use some Spreadsheet in which two or more reports are embedded. It would be good if you can update the ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

For Full Installations set the default to offset by 100 instead of 5 when Port 9300 is in use

For Full Cognos Analytics Installations, offset the port by 100 when the default port is used. See this IBM Support topic for more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Header navigation not working in accessibility report

We are using classic viewer in an accessible report. We were unable to navigate to different headers (H1, H2...) even though Headers are setup in Tables Cells. Currently we are running JAWS-2019 version in firefox 68.0 ESR. Below keys are also not...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Functionality already exists

Support Google API for Single Sign-On Authentication

Add support for Google API for Single Sign-On. We are able to perform it through the browser for Web tools but it fails in Framework Manager as its Built-In Browser is not compliant with Google requirements
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set HTTPONLY attribute to all cookies generated by Cognos

HTTPONLY attribute can be currently enabled only for cam_passport cookie. Please update the product so that this attribute is set for other Cognos generated cookies just like domain, path, secure attributes that are currently set to all the cookie...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration