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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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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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add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Upload/Append Schedule for a file

We have users that have receive upload files everyday and we would like to be able to Update or append to file using scheduling.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow selection of a Planning Analytics subset for a Tree prompt's default

Currently, when I try to set a Tree prompt's default selection property to a subset in a Planning Analytics data source's dimension, it is not allowed. This behavior is not preferred... selection of a subset should be available.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to determine which boxes are checked by default when emailing a report

When our users use the "Run in Background" feature in Cognos Analytics to email a report that's in a public folder, they typically email the report as an attachment. Currently when the Delivery method of “Send report by email” is chosen, the "...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Set report property "Run with full interactivity" to "Yes" using SDK

As shown in the on-line help, report property "Run with full interactivity" is set to "No" for upgraded reports. ---Run with full interactivitySpecifies whether to enable interactivity in the report output.When set to Yes, users will be able to ma...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Internet Explorer Windows Mode is not working for all functionalities in Report Studio or Query Studio

1) Query Studio or Report Studio• Could not drag and drop the dimensions that I want into the content box. • Reports could not be successfully exported out (be it 2002 or 2007 Ms Excel versions) consistently. Sometime it can be exported, somet...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy and Rename Audit Log not containing target location

Currently, whenever a user Renames or Save As.. a report, this log entry only shows the source report, not the destination. So Can you have the Audit also create an entry of the target? Possible fix would be that an operation of MOVE or MOVE or MO...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Output should allow for alternate XML formats

XML output format does not provide for the tag names and cannot be used for import to other applications. Currently, the only option is to export to cvs and then create a program to parse the data. This defeats the purpose of providing XML as a re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration