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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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Share report output with e-mail

In Cognos 10, we could e-mail from within a runned report and even a ad-hoc analyze from workspace advanced, In Cognos Analytics 11 This feature is missing.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove the Archive tab of report versions

Customer would like to have an option to remove user/group/role access to the Archives tab in the report versions pane.PMR reference is TS001418135 - it seems the PMR ID still requires old PMR format.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add options to Run and Save after selecting "Try It" when editing a Data Module

When editing a Data Module, after selecting "Try It", there is no option for Run options, View, Run, or Save. As it is now, you have to save the Data Module, then from the Welcome screen, select Edit Report from the action menu.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Property "Maximum execution time" for DQM in Reporting and Framework Manager Governors

The feature is for Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Prem. Property "Maximum execution time" in Cognos Reporting and Framework Manager Governors works in CQM mode. It does not work in DQM mode, This property need be tuned to work in DQM mode. Add...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exporting Users with EMail ID's

Hi Team, We have a customers who require user Extraction along with email ID's every now and then. So it would be helpful if this feature is added.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Control what to show in on-demand toolbar in Report Studio

Currently the on-demand tool bar in the interactive viewer or the preview mode of the report studio has a good number of options. Most times the users may not need all the options. The favorite options however are sort, filters and aggregate only....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration