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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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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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Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Cube Designer: Select standard folder for cubes

It would be useful to select a standard folder for the publishing of the cube-packages. The standard folder should be set for every dynamic cube.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tenant protected Audit database

We would like to give our customer that are set as different tenants in our environment capabilities to use the audit database.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Subscribe to Trigger

Allow users to subscribe to receive a report based on a trigger schedule
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Reports: Ability to include Report Execution Timestamp in the notification Email

We have a client requirement where client wants to include the report execution timestamp in the notification email which is sent to them for a scheduled report. Currently, in the Notification email, we cannot add any metadata related to the Repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notebook visualization don't show what notebook and path the visualization was add from

I am look at a sample and it is telling the notebook needs to be relinked. Since I didn't create the dashboard or report, I can only guess what notebook the visualization came from and the name of the visualization from the notebook. Need to b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to upload ssl certificates to Cognos through the UI

Currently we need to open a support case in order to add SSL certificates (for data source connections etc.) to the cognos keystore. We would like to have the ability to upload the keys directly into the product.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable "Save as Report View" option on prompt page

The various toolbar option at the top right corner of the Cognos Viewer output page can only be utilized for the HTML format type reports. For the Excel and PDF format report as they are directly downloaded or opened without any output Cognos View...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through to a specific tab

Our team uses IBM Cognos Report Studio to create Reports for our customer. We have created a report with three tabs. In the second tab there is a Drill-through to the same tab, the second. When the author opens the report in Report Studio and clic...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration