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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,

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  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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Report Reference output for CSV and Excel Data

In addition to booklets, utilizing Report References is a great way of abstracting source reports from consumers. Different from Report Views, because you can't create a report view of a report view. But, you can create a report view from a report...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 5 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

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...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

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

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks inside Cognos Analytics

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks. Along with this would be the ability to create macros while you are inside the Cognos Report Editor. So when the report is run the macro Enable Workbook is created with the macros that one d...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release