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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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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

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

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Easier search of Container id based on user name in Jupyter server

We are currently using CA 11.1.5 with Jupyter notebook configured. Cognos is installed in Windows and Jupyter is installed in Linux. At present we have very few users using Jupyter notebook and if any user receive any error in notebook we can easi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Kleber

"When a dashboard is modified the resulting changes to the spec are unsaved and therefore not logged as executions against the original dashboard name/path. Please submit an enhancement to capture 'unsaved actions' on dashboards to logged."
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Personal entries in full backup Content Store

Personal entries from users such as Recent entries and objects in My Content are not part of the current full backup functionality. Please add functionality to backup and restore such content.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Our organization needs to be able to profile and analyze unstructured data in Azure Data Lake Gen2 and create reports. At this point, we are forced to use Power BI for this reporting need because Cognos Analytics does not have this capability to c...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release