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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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Support for migrating reports in a multitenant environment

In a multi-tenant Cognos Analytics on Cloud environment, it is not feasible to migrate reports from one environment to another using the tools currently available. The import and export tools are only present in Cognos Administration, and copy the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Function for Model Revision Audit Log

Adding an export function to the Audit Log screens under Model Revision would allow users to easily/cleanly document their model changes outside of the application and provide a means of easily supplying such information to auditors or other non-u...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Rename Foreign Key

Up to now a RENAME FOREIGN KEY is only possible by dropping and re-creating it, thus asking for a CHECK UTILITY to be run.The enhancement of the ALTER to a RENAME would make those actions superfluous and would be much faster.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

File Management in PAW

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 something like a file explorer in PAW to upload different types of files so that every user can download them...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Change Default Settings For Tools

We would like the ability to change or save the default settings in tools. Currently in a tool (ex Report Studio) if we change the settings under Options, the settings are not retained if we close the tool and reopen it again. We would like the ab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for inclusion of custom Cognos "Hints" within Reports & Dashboards

Interactive reports and dashboards, when designed well, are mostly self-explanatory to use. However, there is often a need for just bit of user instruction. There are ways to build this in today using HTML items, javascript, links to external docu...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic fixing of schedule parameter selections when there is change of MUN

Report schedule fails when there is a change in MUN in report parameter selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration