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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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Export Story To mp4 video

Add the ability to export a Story to a video file, like .mp4. It should auto-play through all slides (like RFE#100967), and ideally allow for saving at "low" and "high" resolution.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

inherit navigaton path from underlying datamodule

We are modelling in different levels. The first level is a technical layer in which we model the technical to the business terms. There will be one datamodule per fact and dimension. In the next level we are modelling for instance a staar schema w...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Date when user added into particular group

We would like to know when each user got access to Cognos. Currently when we add users into user group, we can see the user names only. We would like to see the date when individual user got added.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclude content of hidden folder from search results

In many cases, security requirements dictate hiding a folder from users even though they have read and traverse permissions to it. Content of such folder should not be returned in any search results.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix needed: Schedule and subscription prompt values reset to default when you click Edit

On an existing schedule or subscription, when a user clicks Edit on prompt values, instead of displaying the prompt page with the saved prompt values selected, it displays the "default" prompt values for the report. The report may have no saved pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Maintenance: Bulk Delete Reports

System: Cognos AdministrationActor: New maintenance featureRequire a bulk delete/move task to move/remove thousands or reports. Description: We need to have an easy way to identify and delete thousands of obsolete reports.These reports exist in a ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to identify and monitor "scheduled" executions in the Audit database

Please also refer to Support Case "TS003490098" for more details. Our Cognos admin team regularly uses the Audit database to monitor Cognos activity by the end users. However, we have recently discovered that one important end user reporting behav...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration