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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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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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Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Command confirmation in joblog of DB2MSTR.

DB2 has many commands which display or alter the status of something. There are a lot of distinct environments from which the commands can be executed (z/OS console, DSN session, TSO DSN command processor, IMS or CICS terminal, special STPs, IFI-i...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

OpenPages session should not timeout when user is working on Cognos

Some users have created self-serve report which took more than 1 hour for them and when they try to save the report it fails with Firewall Security Rejection. This is happening because of the session time out on OpenPages side. Even though, there ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Button to move between Tabs

while working with the Dashboard with more than 4 to 5 tabs. Movement of one Tab to another Tab is easier. This same feature is available in Planning Analytics workspace if you wanted to check
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Backup Size Info In History FIle

Db2 LUW Doesn't provide Backup Image Size that was taken . Please add this info to history file along with location of backup image
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1

Default Action as 'Run the report'

When new reports are created with Report Studio, the default action in report properties is set as 'View Most Recent Report'. I would like a global option to be able to set this as 'Run the Report' for newly created reports. I'm not asking for a w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration