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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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Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create view in PAW

I will be shown a view on TM1 "Architect or Perspectives" also when I create a view directly in PAW. (If I create a view in PAW, it will not be shown in TM1)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy or move books

I want to select some books and copy or move them together once. (now I can copy or move books one by one) In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer so...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit - Submitted time for a report/job missing

Mail from Cognos:"I have checked with a senior resource, and looked up the tables in the Admin guide for Cognos, andconfirmed that submitted time isn't recorded directly in any of the tables and columns available in Audit Database.The technote I h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to see actual query generated when running a report

The report query generated "Show Generated SQL/MDX" is not the same as the query that is traced on report execution Targeted to Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

custom appender log4j2 logging and CJAP and SDK logging

Today there is no feasibility to log CJAP or our SDK based batch script into custom log file using log4j2/SLF4j implementation. Earlier we used to use log4j 1.x with log4j.properties file and able to log SDK/CJAP into our custom log file. With 11....
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Email Notification for Cognos FIx Packs

It would be nice to have an email notifying users when new Fix Packs are available for Cognos Business Intelligence
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display query(ies) in Generated SQL/MDX when using a Global Parameter as Cascade source

Show Generated SQL/MDX is not able to display any SQL query in a report when using a Global Parameter in a Cascade Prompt, not matter if is being used in a query Item, the fact of being used in this way block all queries in SQL/MDX box. The work ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add multiple widget connections to one dashboard object

we need to be able to assign to one data object multiple connections not just one like today to be able to setup more complicated interactions similar to gestures in active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend scriptable interface with methods for determine the type of a prompt control

The scripting interface for custom controls and page modules offers currently (v11.0.11) no documented javacript-method for getting the type of a certain prompt control (e.g. TextPrompt, selectBox etc.).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0