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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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Missing search capability when adding a source to report

when adding a source to a report like package or data module, the user need to select the source from the my content or team content folder by browsing the content folder structure. Sometimes this folder structure could be very large with many sub...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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...
about 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 ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Validate against Google BigQuery sources should submit DryRun queries

Validation of a calculation in a Framework Model against a BigQuery source results in a query executed against the data source without filters. This incurs cost and may exceed resource limits defined for that environment.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

SSGA

Alternate method for updating the Stored procedure data type changes in Cognos Instead of Framework manager.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Defined Error Messages

Our team is using CA to connect to TM1 packages, and often times we run into connection issues. It will always give us the same message "DIMM-ERR-1007", but the root cause could be completely different each time.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Ability to pin favorite properties or set some properties on top

What new is in Cognos Analytics (compared with Cognos 10) is the ability to pin favorite items of the toolbox. It should be very powerful when this functionality is also available in the properties pane. When you are designing the page, you can ch...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Move or copy reports (including custom step options) between different jobs

Moving a report (including the custom step options) from one job to another job is too complicated. The only option to do this is to delete the report in one job and add the report in the other job. So you have to define the step options again whi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration