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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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Data modules: context explorer

Data modules should have a context explorer like in Framework Manager. This is very useful for complex/bigger models with many relationships.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Auto Resize Result List

the properties.js file is not supported in the new Analytics interactive viewer so SYSTEMPROPERTY_CSEARCH_AUTO_RESIZE_RESULT_LIST will not work when set to true. This is something that worked in 10.2.2 and no longer works.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations to use in active reports. This will allow for the crosstab and list to be filtered by a category not being displayed in the values. Same behaviour as charts.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save Report output to Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users to schedule their report's output to Box or OneDrive accounts. This will bring a lot of value for our users as often our users schedule reports to be delivered via email and some of them are r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide show generated sql

For security reason i would be able to hide to basic users the possibility to show generated sql and so view the internal tables , connection,schema etc.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Row based security using session ID in Data Modules

We have a need for row based security in the data modules. Ideally we would be able to filter content based on the session id of the user against a security table that is part of the model. Our business analyst users can do this in other tools and...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Transformer To Run In 64-Bit Mode

Allow transformer to run using 64-bit dispatchers. Note that this not a requirement for transformer to take advantage of any extended functionality 64-bit might entail. We simply want transformer to run within a Cognos Analytics environment having...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datasets - size restriction and size monitoring

Administrators should be able to set a limit for the size of a data set. Administrator should be able to monitor the sizes of Data sets.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration