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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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Cognos Analytics

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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...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Parametarized URL, passing data source connection as Store ID

With parametarized URL it is possible to pass report object via report path or Store ID, but it is not possible to pass data source connection as Store ID.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Run History Overview per Report View

In Version 10 it was possible to take a look in to the run history in the properties of a report view. There you can see e.g. the last 5 runtimes in a table.In Verison 11 you have to go on a saved report output and then you see the run history of ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

'JOB' in 'My Schedules and Subscriptions' breaks into multiple line items as per the number of reports

When you run a Job, my schedule and subscription screen does split the Job and its associated reports to separate line items as per the number of associated reports, we don't have a way to tie a report to Job from Schedules and Subscription screen...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration