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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Bring back support for Virtual View Manager (ODBC) data source

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were using IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager (ODBC) also known as Composite (ODBC) data source to select online a WSDL interfaceand also in Data Manager as package data source.In Cognos Analytics VVM has been deprecated in 11.0.2...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export Story To mp4 video

Add the ability to export a Story to a video file, like .mp4. It should auto-play through all slides (like RFE#100967), and ideally allow for saving at "low" and "high" resolution.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to identify and monitor "scheduled" executions in the Audit database

Please also refer to Support Case "TS003490098" for more details. Our Cognos admin team regularly uses the Audit database to monitor Cognos activity by the end users. However, we have recently discovered that one important end user reporting behav...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exclude content of hidden folder from search results

In many cases, security requirements dictate hiding a folder from users even though they have read and traverse permissions to it. Content of such folder should not be returned in any search results.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Event Studio to support emailing multiple report outputs for same recipient separately

Our requirement is to email a bursted report to business users and to have the subject line indicate the policy# and a few other pieces of information. Once the report is bursted, one ore more report outputs will be created for the same recipient....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Date when user added into particular group

We would like to know when each user got access to Cognos. Currently when we add users into user group, we can see the user names only. We would like to see the date when individual user got added.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Organization methods for extensions

At the moment the extensions appears as a list. When you have dozens of extensions it can be painful to find any specific extension. I'd like to add tags to extensions that will allow the admin to filter the list. I see it as being part of the spe...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Fix needed: Schedule and subscription prompt values reset to default when you click Edit

On an existing schedule or subscription, when a user clicks Edit on prompt values, instead of displaying the prompt page with the saved prompt values selected, it displays the "default" prompt values for the report. The report may have no saved pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration