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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module: Report query execution method

Displaying prompt pages using data modules takes a lot of time, as prompt queries are only run sequential. Similarly this also applies to reports using multiple queries.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to identify the requests from Cognos For MS Office.

We want to be able to identify the requests from Cognos For MS Office. When users refresh reports from Cognos for MS Office, it is not logged into Audit tables. We want to be able to identify the requests from Cognos for MS Office and Cognos Conne...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Improve the custom banner feature

Consider this scenario... There is a problem with the daily loads or I have developed a cool new report and I want to notify all cognos users of this. The Cognos banner might be a great way to do just that... But my Cognos environment is managed &...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Provide Transformer in Cloud for Clients building against DashDB

Currently customers that are building Transformer PowerCubes on premise against DashDB in the cloud are forced to leverage IQDs (32-bit) due to the excessive round-trips of the data when using DQM data sources (64-bit). This is necessitating a slo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preventing accidental singleton creation in Report

What has always been a struggle for new users in Report Studio is the ability to accidentally create singletons when dragging data items onto the report page. As we are training our Query Studio users in the Cognos Analytics Report we are seeing t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report output saved to multiple filesystems.

We would like to have the ability to save report outputs to multiple shared filesystems, where report output is save under folders who's name relates to the actual reports names. CASE number for reference:TS000067038
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Capabilities tab to Data module's Properties like FM package has

We want to control which group has access to specific capabilities on a data module.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Glossary on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration