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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support click house data source

Case number TS010994014
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using?

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using in Cognos Connection? this fuctionality use to exist in v.10 , where we can see datasource by clicking on more properties of package. Case : TS001410982 was created for same and was suggested to su...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Page settings for notifications

Please add the ability for displaying a limited number of rows of notifications as set by the administrators. Further notifications can be accessed by a Next and or Back link to load the next set of messages, or to go back to the previous set. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Minior modification huge change

The color palette under Network Connection visualization should have at least 2 options for coloring. The main dot and the secondary dot. https://w3-connections.ibm.com/forums/html/topic?id=bfbd2add-80b2-47d1-a683-0c439f5d03ee
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

CONTROL THE DEFAULT DELIVERY OPTIONS WHEN RUN WITH OPTIONS > SEND REPORT VIA EMAIL.

Client would like to control which users have the ability to send emails. Example: "Run with Advanced Options" -> "Run in Background"Client only wants certain users with ability to send emails. Currently, we can hide email option in Select deli...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration