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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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Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Ability to update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Standardize features across similar database connectors.

Certain features are not consistently available across similar connectors, leading to potential confusion for users. For instance, the 'PostgreSQL' connector supports the Data Quality output table, while the 'Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL' connector d...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Data security filters on datasets

As a data modeler I want to secure data based on datasets via security filters in data modules. Same type of security filters as for database tables. We have an urgent case now where a dashboard based on uploaded files need to have data security i...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Need to separate Config Map from MDM, MDMUI, MQ images to take the benefits of MDM containerized application

We want to avoid fresh installation of MDM in future. Currently, MDM is in a containerized environment. To use the benefits of the same for example easy migration from one DC to other DC, let us know how compatible MDM is for such migration. If no...
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Formula cascade to rows in Universal Reports

It helps in enriching user experience where the tm1/excel formulas entered adjacent to report area gets automatically cascaded. This will eliminate the manual entering of formulas making the report more dynamic.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted