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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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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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Like to export any report to Excel Data or CSV form

Customer has a complex report with multiple pages that contain crosstabs lists and master detail links that when run to Excel Data do not display an error message but instead gets a blank page. When creating a simple crosstab report and exporting ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Question about Drill Down/Up with a report multi pages

Report spec:Page 1 - HomePage 2 - crosstab with drill to self When you drill on the second page the report goes to the first page even if the drill works well when you go back to the second page.Is there a way to go directly to second page ? Possi...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
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Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Permanent un-editable report header

The customer would like a permanent report header which is displayed at the top of every report when creating a new report. They want this header to be un-editable. We attempted using a report template and adding the banner to the header CSS but s...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fit to page on Legal Letter or customer Size paper

Report Studio option of changing the paper to Legal Size paper does not fit the charts properly in terms of width and height. The charts get carried over to the second page. Client wishes to have option of fit to page width and height for Legal Le...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to change the behavior of the select delivery method option

Client requests that it if when they use the select delivery method option for a long running interactive report that the report server request is cancelled and the request is forwarded to the batch report service immediately instead of waiting fo...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report sharing functionality

Description of Request from customer: ""We currently have 100 Advanced Business Authors and end Septemberwe're going to add additional 50 Business Intelligence Users. This willprovide 150 users with content creation capabilities. The purpose ofthe...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Cognos Mobile Freeze Panes usage

Client would like the freeze panes functionality to be available from the mobile application while viewing reports. Currently this is not possible on the Ipod application
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

produce a report in XML and CSV format with more than one query

The Report Studio user guide states : You can produce a report in HTML PDF CSV various Excel formats and XML. You cannot produce a report in CSV or XML format if you have more than one query defined in the report unless the additional queries are ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENH : Prompt : Add the possibility to select elements by level in the tree prompt

We would like the possibility to select elements by level in a tree prompt .This could be done for example with a contextual menu from any element. The different options will be the following :� Select children of selected elements� Select all...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration