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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ADD IMS AS POSSIBLE DATASOURCE IN COGNOS ANALYTICS

The IMS data source has been removed from Cognos Analytics since version 11.0.6This database is however an IBM product while the IDMS database (Computer Associates and now Broadcom) is still available in 11.1.5 for example. We have the need in our...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

namespace

Add support for namespace in datamodules
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search Schedule by Name in Cognos Administration Portal

Currently I have option to filter schedules but if I need to search a schedule by its name, I have to visit each page and look at it and its time consuming as well as there are chances or error and I might overlook it. I have faced this problem nu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend REST API with GET Specification of Framework Model (XML)

To get the Definitions of the SQL / Tables etc. behind a report we will need to read the XML Definition of the Package used in the report. We already get any information (name, description, xml specification) about the report with the new REST API...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM CA Cloud 11.1.7: Audit Package to include the items regarding the roles and/or groups an individual user is in

In the past, when we had Cognos on prem we could run SQL against the content store that would allow to see all the roles and/or groups of an individual user. Our Internal auditors need this information for compliance purpose. Per IBM Support case ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration