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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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Cognos Analytics

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Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Image browsing in the Cloud version of Report Authoring

When images are uploaded via ticket to the standard CAoC ../images folder, they cannot be browsed in the report author tool as WevDAV is not enabled/available for this folder. Please can WebDAV be made available to this folder.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Notebook-based dashboards

Dynamic dashboards are an interesting idea, but they require you to save the data to a data source and then recreate it with Cognos tools. Since the visuals were likely already done in the notebook, this is making a user go through additional, pos...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

report view to store properties like filters, groupings, summaries set from activity menu

This would make it easier to share and communicate results/analysis from reports instead of creating a totally new report.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Folder Level Auditing Access Out of the Box

Currently out of the box Cognos audit data does not contain a clear and concise way to track user clicks at a folder level. We want to be able to easily track what folders a user has accessed out of the box. We want this solution without a complic...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Request Cognos Features

1. We need to be able to limit the number reports a specific user can run at once. 2. We also need to limit how many of a specific report can run at once.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With Clause on SAP HANA

When migrating from SAP BW on Oracle to SAP HANA or in general when using SAP HANA as data source via JDBC Dynamic Query Mode is not generating complex SQLs with a WITH CLAUSE statement. During a major project with a bank we experienced that from ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk modification of properties of report and objects

hello, I often find myself having to edit the properties of reports and have to open them one by one. So I was thinking as an improvement to the options on the portal (also to be added as an option on the folder that contains the objects ) that it...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Predefined trigger name via drop down list

It is possible to set a trigger name for scheduling reports via external trigger. This trigger name is a text input box and should be configurable for predefined values to ensure correct naming. Until version 11.1.5. with a unsupported customizati...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes: MultiSelect Measures and change at once the Format for all measures selected.

in the Cube Designer UI : having the capabiliy to select multiple measures at the same time (multi-select with CTRL+Click for example) and change the FORMAT for all measure selected at the same time ( like the feature we have in Framework manager ).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration