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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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Cognos Analytics

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Validate Reports Administratively after Model or Data Module Update

As an administrator/developer, we would like to have the ability to administratively validate/save reports after updating the source metadata model package or data module. At present, owners of reports have to be notified when a model/data module ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

LCM times out or crashes after unspecified amount of time

my team has noticied with 11.07 LCM install and 11.0.10 that after an undetermined amount of time that the LCM component will time out or crash this needing to have its service restarted. Ticket: TS000999719 was opened for this for review.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User/Group reporting

Need the ability to report groups and their members. Ticket TS001005683 was submitted for this but is now closed.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Organize Query Page

When multiple queries are created for one report, it is often difficult to see which ones go together on the query page. Being able to move the queries more on the right side of the page or being able to create a line to group the queries would be...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add .Jpeg/.png widget

There is a need for end users to have the ability to add a picture of their choice to Cognos Analytics dashboards. The current methods are restricted to: -url photo location -Custom gallery generated by an administrator Neither of these two ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for burst report test sending to see the outputs that would be generated

Allow users to essentially test the outputs of a burst report without actually sending anything to the recipients. For example - see the individual excel files that would go to a given email address, but send to the person testing, not the recipie...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Data module: Grouping tables

I would like to have the ability to group tables importes into a new Data module. This would be equivalent to the yellow folders in FM.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cache parameterized queries if default values set

Refresh Report Output: When scheduling a report via Job, if we select ‘refresh the report cache', it only refreshes prompt page of the report. How could we refresh report output if data latency is acceptable?
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Option to go ‘Down a level' in Workspace Advanced

Looking for an option to go ‘down a level' in Workspace Advanced similar to what is available in Analysis studio. For example to get all children of 2014, I shouldn't have to click each quarter and expand to get the months. If there was a dimens...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration