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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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Extend REST API with GET Specification of Framework Model (XML)

To get the Definitions of the SQL / Tables etc. behind a report we will need to read the XML Definition of the Package used in the report. We already get any information (name, description, xml specification) about the report with the new REST API...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend Audit logging with studio usage

It would be helpful if the use of the studio is recorded in the audit tables. Information about- which users use - which studio and - how often are important and could play a role for statistics, performance and licensing issues.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User/Group reporting

Need the ability to report groups and their members. Ticket TS001005683 was submitted for this but is now closed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Organize Query Page

When multiple queries are created for one report, it is often difficult to see which ones go together on the query page. Being able to move the queries more on the right side of the page or being able to create a line to group the queries would be...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to connect to IDV ( Informatica Data Vault ) as a Data Source for Reporting Purpose

We have critical data stored in Informatica Data Vault (IDV )and this data is accessed via 200+ Cognos reports across different areas in the company. In the version Cognos 10.2.2, we used the Microsoft ODBC driver ( Nucleus ) to connect to this da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Burst Options for Data module based reports inside a job

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Cognos to Essbase Connectivity

To connect Cognos 11.0.* to Essbase 11.1.2.3.*. for reporting. This will help users to have front end reporting for Essbase using Cognos
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set global parameters in Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Ability to set the use/display value for a parameter once in a project and have it use across multiple reports
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration