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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 For MS Office

We downloaded the latest version of Cognos Analytics for MS office and connected it to Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 environment. We tried to import the report to PowerPoint. We found we couldn't import 11.1 style visualization to PowerPoint. It shows b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow custom hardware specifications for Online Deployments such as for a Shiny app

We have users that have a need for different hardware configurations when deploying a RShiny application in their deployment space. They need high amount of memory but only need 2 cpu. We dont want them to deploy the application with a high amount...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW overview of the folder/book structure incl. permissions

Regarding “corporate usability” PAW is missing an overview of the folder/book structure. Currently you have no chance to keep track of the folders underlying books and especially the permissions. At least there should be a way to export the whole ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Automatically refresh after execution for Navigation Buttons

Dear PAW-Team, When navigating via the navigation button between several books that refer to the same selection elements, we are currently exposed to the problem that our customer must manually press the refresh button if elements have changed.Oth...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Launch Report Studio through URL along with embedded package to use

Unable to launch Report Studio with an embedded package, which we were able to do in Cognos 10.2.2. Clients are given the ability to create their own reports by defining profile and package (restrctive) in the URL to launch Report Studio. We do no...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename folder names on home page

Hello There, We are looking for a way to rename the 'Team content' and 'My content' folders on Cognos Analytics home page. This feature is available on earlier Cognos 10.X versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration