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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,

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  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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Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Save As report View - Converted Reports Workflow

"Save As ReportView" functionality uses different workflows for Interactive vs Non Interactive reports. This is not intuitive for end users. Target: Report Studio, Admin
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to upload ssl certificates to Cognos through the UI

Currently we need to open a support case in order to add SSL certificates (for data source connections etc.) to the cognos keystore. We would like to have the ability to upload the keys directly into the product.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Managing and administering to Schedules in Cognos Administration console

We are having challenges managing the number of schedules that exist in our environment. We have some questions around the management and administraiton of schedules. If these possibilities do not exist via advanced configuration parameters we wou...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Security Auditing and Reporting for Cognos BI CAM - SOX Compliance

Issue: not able to audit details of changes made to security in BI CAM Request: System logs and reports on detailed activities of an action. Reason: We need the detail log level in order to be compliant with our internal CN SOX compliance requirem...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMR 13167,7TD,000: Refreshing only the prompts and not the whole report page

We have few pick-list cascaded prompts on the report page. Whenever user selects these prompts, and click submit, the whole report page with data gets refreshed along with the cascaded prompt values. We need only the cascaded prompt values to be r...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting: Resizable find window

The "Find" window in Authoring (Reporting) where one can search in the report itself cannot be resized. Especially when having long query and/or data item names and many search results this impedes the work process to find a specific result and ex...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration