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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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Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customization of tooltips to show datapoint images, description, sales and other visualizations like top 5 products for that datapoint in Tooltip

Tooltip actions like whenever you mouse hover on any viz datapoint should show other tabs/vizs means give ability to manually edit tooltip text/data what to show or not. for example we have a chart with all product category sales and whenever you ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Insert a tag in email header for all the emails sent by Cognos app server

We are requesting an option to add an attribute to the mail header for all mails generated from Cognos App Server so that we can map that to some config in Amazon SES, which will allow us to capture info/metrics about all of the outgoing mails.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow session logging to use remote log server settings

While a remote log server can be used to redirect logging into cogaudit.log to a dedicated server whitin a distributed environment, this is currently not possible for session logging. Also session logging should take care of the remote log server ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to Monitor Current and Past Activities without Admin Role

We are looking for a way to allow developers in our Non-Prod Cognos environments to have access to the Status tab of the Administration tool so that they can monitor their reports/jobs. We need a way to grant a capability to a Non-Admin role that ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Hide/Remove Export to Excel option from Workspace

We are looking to secure option to take report Export in Excel/CSV for all BI tools. This would mean that only selected users those are part of a particular user group will be allowed to run report in Excel/CSV. We had raised multiple PMRs and exp...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability for "Copy and Edit" option in "More"

when I am copying an object, it is usually because I need to make a change via editing the object. It would be really helpful to add to the "more" list, Copy and Edit.I make a copy, rename it and OK, then I need to edit object to make the changes ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hidden Query related issue

A Report Studio report contains hidden query items. Is it possible to export to CSV and not show the hidden columns? Please see this technote as a workaround. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hidden-query-items-appear-csv I wrote PMR ## Response ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Adding newly added data sources to data modules automatically

We're developing a data collaboration platform. New data sources in various data formats such as CSV, database table or ESRI map will be uploaded to the platform. In this context, data modules should update itself automatically.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration