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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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Data Modules - Capabilities to restrict access to specific types of sources

There are 5 types of sources for data modules: packages data modules data sets uploaded files data server connections Not every user should see or have access to all of these types of sources. For example we don't want our users to upload files an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Import/Export Data Module json specification in Data Module editor

For some use cases it would be beneficial to be able to import and export the Data Module specification not only via REST API but within the Data Module editor: professional modelers can generate their Data Module specifications in external tools,...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Custom template with attached package in CA

Hello, I want to make template with attachment package, because I use only one package and all the time, when I make new raport, so I have to choose this same package everytime.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

11.2 alter home page to Team Content Globally

There is a desire by customers to alter the home page for all users to be the Team Content page in 11.2. However, they can only alter to a report or dashboard. The user individually can alter, so the capability is there, it just needs to be exposed.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Microsoft Fabric Data Server Connection

Any plans on supporting a Data Server Connection to Microsoft Fabric ?
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

IN TREE PROMPT WHEN THE CHECKBOX AGAINST ROOT NODE IS SELECTED THE CHILDRENNODES ARE NOT AUTO-SELECTED

We have a tree prompts in which we are showing product/geography which has more than one level. When user selects All Level (Root Level) and all Level 1 options to get the total value at Product/Geography level the value shown is getting doubled. ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Format option to Run Options in Cognos Analytics 11 Report Authoring

Add Format option in the report authoring tools Run Options dialog so user can View Tabular Data in format other than HTML
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability To Selectively Deploy Data Sources

We need the ability to have project admins (users, not people with SYSADM rights) export specific data sources from one environment to another, and have that respect the defined permissions. So: if a user wants to migrate a Dynamic Cube data sourc...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration