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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Function in Openpages to push the user's email recorded in Openpages to Cognos Analytics without developing cognos SDK

Currently the email recorded for an user in Oppenpages and the email in Cognos are not sync, a business will have to manually type their email address when trying to send report to themself. There is no way to add that for the user themself withou...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

To have SSO working with Opepages and IBM Cognos for Office

Is there a way to log into Cognos from IBM cognos for office when it is through Openage and SSO is used? Notes: we have the Login redirect URL set under Manage > Config > System and since we are on OP 8.3, it no longer support Internet explo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

NOT NULL limitation violation of VARCHAR2 in case federated SELECT ''(empty charactor) from Oracle compati Db2 to Native Db2

[Situation]There is a federated system between VARCHAR2 compatibility off w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined table (actual source table) and VARCHAR2 compatibility on w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined nick name (federated) table.[Current de...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consolidated Database Availability (weekly/monthly) Report.

Data Management Console currently doesn't have a capability to generate a weekly/monthly "Database Availability" report of all the Databases that are being monitored. This enhancement needs to be added so that DMC can generate a report which shoul...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow to Hide Instructions in Reports

Currently, when running reports in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service (SOAR), the reports do not allow us to hide the instructions, making the report longer than necessary. It affects all users in the organization that have access to the platform. Pr...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Not under consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration