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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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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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Ability save filtered interactive report to xls or pdf

We embed cognos report within our portal page (.NET) and so the cognos toolbars are hidden and only way to export the report output is to use a drillthrough link to export report to appropriate output format. The drillthrough report unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Changing the default save directory when saving a report or other object

when a user starts creating a report, he has to choose a package. so far so good.now when he wants to save the report, the default directory that opens to save the file is the directory of the package. That is not what we want.We want as default f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

OLAP Modelling for Data Modules (Dimensions / Hierarchies / Levels) like Framewormanager

Like in Frameworkmanager we need to define Dimensions, Hierary, Levels in Datamodules. This is because we need to build complex reports, which we can build very fast, with less complexity with Cubes. Dynamic Cubes and Transformer Cubes. We want to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Page Preview's row per page default setting

Product: Cognos Workspace AdvancedActor: customer needing system setting change Description: our customer is asking for changing the default "rows per page" value when working in Page Preview mode Actually this setting is set to 50rows for a curre...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cancel Running Report for all Users

It should be possible for all users to cancel their Report running in the background. With R10 the functionality to Suspend a running Report was delivered, but we also need the ability to Cancel their running Reports for all users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to limit concurrent queries per user

We would like to have the advanced option to limit the parallel execution for jobs per user.In case user launches a job with many reports inside and select execution in parallel, this single user can overload the servers by taking all resources. T...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration