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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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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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Allow Columns to be Reordered in Data Modules

Today, it is not possible in a Data Module to change the order of columns from the existing order of the underlying data source. This functionality should be added to Data Modules
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Put fields/Date Items in folders and also mark as hidden in a data module

Some fields in datamodules will be things like surrogate keys, which I dont want users to see or use. Currently I dont see a way to hide them. Additionally when there are a number of fields in a table, it is more logical for users to see these in ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Meaning of members in COGIPF_OPERATION field in AUDIT LOG

System : Audit log Database (cognosal), Audit package('Operations by Selected Object and Users' report)User : User need to know the meaning of member in COGIPF_OPERATION field Description : Our customer used the Audit report to check how the Cogno...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Dynamic Cubes available to be used with Cognos Analytics 11 on Cloud

As a Cognos Analytics on Cloud customer I need to be able to use Dynamic Cubes in my solution
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Comprehensive Auditing #mea #emea

Give more thorough Auditing Capabilities instead of using Audit Extension or third part tool like Motio or BSP Software.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow for Dynamic Cubes in the Cloud

Multiple customers have requested the capability to create/utilize Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Analytics on the Cloud.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support SAP BW 7.52 with IBM Cognos

Our version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is 10.2.2.5. We are currently using version of SAP BW 7.32. My company will like to advance to version SAP BW 7.5x. However I did not find this version on your Software Product Compatibility Reports....
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Use New Interactive Report Functionality via SDK

When embedding content into other applications via SDK, only the 10.2 functionality is available. There are none of the new features, such as sorting and filtering, that are available directly in the Cognos portal.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Tab Names

When outputting report booklet to Excel, there is no way to name the tabs. Ideally, those names should be controlled from properties of the Report Booklet reports.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration