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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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Report options like "Double-click on member action" should be a personal preference.

While authoring a report it is possible to set some options. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_set_options.html). These options are saved in the browser cookies. The...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW Personal Folders

When a user saves a Book in private folder, the Administrator cannot open it (neither execute nor modify). We would like a management similar to Cognos Analytics, where Administrators can access to "Administration console" (in Security management)...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Function to include upload file info such as modified date to a report

We need the ability to show when the upload file was created/modified in our data module for dashboard and reports. It is important for the report-users to know when the upload was refreshed. Other upload attributes such as owner and file name mig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Security enhancement - support of roles for GRANT SETSESSIONUSER privilege

After the change of the security setup in DB2 database to a role based model there is still a part where some rights can only be granted to groups instead of roles. This forces admins to maintain to sets of security setups making a complex Task ev...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to notify me functionality; "Notify me" Include Email Notification Option (Cloud & OnPrem)

Current : when a user selects an option to notify me for the report/output, when the scheduled report gets updated. Cognos notifies the user with bell notifications updates in Home Portal. Functionality Need: In addition to the Bell notifications,...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to adapt destination package path when import reports

When we export from DEV environment a report which link with a specific DEV package path,we want to import this report in PROD environment where the package is stored on a different path than DEV.The name of the package don't change between the tw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add the function "managing message handlers" in CP4D UI

We would like to implement any jobs that branches on warning or not.But we can't implement this jobs, because the specific Stage in parallel jobs output trivial warning. For example, the Funnel Stage always output following warning when two tables...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DBT Semantic layer integration

Universal semantic layer for all analytics tools, including Cognos Analytics. If Cognos wants to stay relevant, and not replaced by alternative products, please embrace the modern stack and a universal semantic layer. Many years ago, it was at mul...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Logical grouping of objects in workbench

When you start of have lots of dimensions/cubes/processes, it would be nice to be able to group them in the modelling workbench pane.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration