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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.

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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Show different report icon change if there is saved output available

One thing which made the old Cognos 10 interface better than the new Cognos Analytics 11 was the ability to look at the state of a report and tell, at a glance, if there was any saved output available. The new CA 11 interface does not provide this...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of On premise Life Cycle Manager with IBM Cloud

Currently, It is not possible to use on premise LCM to access Cognos analytics on the cloud current environments and we get SSL errors. It will be good to have LCM available on premise to be able to control access and utilize Citrix environment fo...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less information in error messages

The web application for Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 discloses internal information at several locations. The information can be used by attackers to narrow down further possible attack vectors. The examples are version information and det...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on data field i.e. Green for on progress, red for delayed

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on value in the field i.e. Green color for on progress, red for delayed and others
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RANK in Cognos Report Authoring

We migrated from Cognos 7 to Cognos 11. Users cannot create query calculations. Some users use only basic functionality in the reports. In powerplay there used to RANK option. Please create an option to create RANK column field in Cognos report au...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tree Prompt Control - Highlight Selected Members

Once selected tree prompt values are highlighted and submitted, they no longer appear highlighted. This is confusing to users when they select multiple members/hierarchies and do not remember all the values selected.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Story To mp4 video

Add the ability to export a Story to a video file, like .mp4. It should auto-play through all slides (like RFE#100967), and ideally allow for saving at "low" and "high" resolution.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Elimination of Dropdown list

Client environment uses LDAP for Active Directory, since the Client Active Directory domain has several domains (BDS, and CDS) when two namespaces have to be created in order to recognize users in each domain(BDS or CDS). This is an SSO environmen...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Extended Agent Audit Reports

Cognos Analytics currently only ships with a narrow set of Audit Reports in regard to Agent Execution. It is not possible to get an easy overview of Runtimes for Agents and their Payload. The Sample Package also does not cover the correct connecti...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration