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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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Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

PAW: Add drill-through view to workbench

Please provide the possibility to add a view, which is opened by a Drillthrough (via ReturnViewHandle), to a workbench. It is possible to add such a view, if one is executing a drillthrough in a book. But it not possible to add it as a new tab to ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Provide detailed documentation regarding the "Search" feature

The "new and improved" search feature in Cognos Analytics is currently poorly documented.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Rule Trace to include line of code

Add the feature to show what Line Number the rule of code is in the Trace feature. This would just be a great convenience when troubleshooting calculations.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Functionality To Pass Dashboard This Tab Filter values with Invert i.e. exclude in drill through

High Level Summary ------------------ Issue IS Dashboard drill-through pass filter values with Invert i.e. exclude Issue IS NOT Dashboard drill-through pass filter values selected Issue IS Dasboard This tab, Global tab and Local filter options Iss...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add "Master Detail Relationships" to Singletons

Singleton is the only data container object in Report Studio that does not support master detail relationships. While it is usually possible to get around this limitation by using repeaters, some cases require drastic and complex work-arounds.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Azure Saas support for watsonx.data

A lot of customers are using Microsoft Azure and they would like to be able to consume watsonx.data as true Saas on such platform
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release