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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Cognos Analytics

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Save report output to Oracle Cloud object storage.

This functionality is working for AWS but not working for Oracle Cloud which we use to host Cognos Analytics. We created support ticket TS003696659 to troubleshoot this issue. Oracle Cloud should be supported along with AWS and Azure.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMR 51742,442,000- Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.

1. Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.2. Refreshing list with less data leaves empty row and column cells3. Refreshing list with more data does not get published
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hiding 'Send report to mobile device' option under Report delivery method in Cognos 11 Cloud

Hi Team, On Cognos 11 cloud portal for any report when we choose Report 'Run as' > 'Run in background' > 'Advanced' > 'Delivery', we can see 'Send report to mobile device' option. we want to hide this option for group of users (based o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

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

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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