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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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Reports should be able to save output as data set (dataset), just like HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV etc

A report should be able to save output as a data set. Run a report to a data set should be just as simple as running a report to Excel, PDF etc. Whilst the functionality exists to create a new data set report from an existing report, this means we...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

List Report - Display "Total Pages Number" with the Page Number

List Report should be able to display the Page No/Total Page No's along with the buttons "Top", "Page Up", "Page down", "Page bottom". This should be the basic feature and very useful feature. Example Page 1/10, 2/10 .....10/10. By knowing the Tot...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AuditDBCleanup for Cognos Analytics

A version of the AuditDBCleanup tool for Cognos Analytics is needed to provide easy cleanup capabilities for IBM Cognos audit logging databases, allowing old database records to be deleted regularly based on a timestamp.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to adapt destination package path when import reports

When we export from DEV environment a report which link with a specific DEV package path,we want to import this report in PROD environment where the package is stored on a different path than DEV.The name of the package don't change between the tw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for treeprompt into dashboards (for dimensional data sources)

Hello, we are missing the support for tree prompt selection for elements in dashboard when using dimensional data. Today when we drag hierarchy we see list of root elements which is not expected behavior. Users need to see and browse the dimension...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow Query set operations between packages or data modules

You can add data from multiple packages that use the dynamic query mode. However, Query set operations (join, union, intercept, except) are supported only for the default package or data module. Not being able to join queries built from different ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics - Concurrent Query Execution

Cognos Analytics have concurrent query execution setting at server level and report query but it does not work efficiently in most of the case. Concurrent query execution is one of the bigger ask from the customer for better performance.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Schedule From Executing if the Current Execution Has Not Completed

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almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change element icons within the content store navigation (as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x)

In Congos Analytics 11 it is not possible to change the icon for example of a report or folder as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x. If a user navigates through the Content Store he always see the same icons for reports or folders, it is not pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration