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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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Receive a warning when you delete a detail report used in master reports.

When a user deletes a report, he does not know that this report is used as a detail report in master reports, in case there are master-detail relationship defined. So, the user should have a warning to indicate that the report is a detail reports...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Include Documents in Archiving

Content archiving is currently only supporting report output versions. Uploaded documents from Cognos for Microsoft Office (ClassID 180) are not picked of the archiving background task and cannot be archived to an external repository like fileshar...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to pull the complete CLOB data in cognos reports

We are unable to take the complete transcript to the cognos reports. Due to the limitation the data gets truncated and stored in reports. This leads to incorrect data from cognos reports. It impacts the data analytics. Kindly look into this and do...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

compatibleProductVersion should have a "silent fail" option

When writing an extension the compatibleProductVersion object allows you to specify which versions the extension should work with. In theory this is great as it would allow the extension author to build a single package that covers multiple versio...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

ADA Compliance: On activating Tab key after selecting Learn button, focus moves to Home button

Steps to Reproduce: 1)Navigate -> Authoring and Analysis 2)In IBM Cognos Analytics screen, move focus to Learn button 4) Activate Enter key, Learn menu expands 5) Activate Tab key and verify the focus order On activating Tab key after selecting...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration