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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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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,

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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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Members in the data tree (hide/disable)

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos 11.1.7 and we would like to control "Members in the data tree" for Dashboards (with Package as Data Source) to have an ability to decrease the load on our server (in case we will have performance issues ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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

Correctly calculate measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes.

IBM Cognos 10.2.2, Dynamic Cubes have a data integrity issue whereby they do not correctly compute measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes. A warning is issued in Cube Designer. The consequence is that if business users bu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configurable variable quota designated for datasets per user/group/or role

Currently the allocated size for datasets are the same for everyone. For Powerusers we need to allocate bigger size
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create view in PAW

I will be shown a view on TM1 "Architect or Perspectives" also when I create a view directly in PAW. (If I create a view in PAW, it will not be shown in TM1)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy or move books

I want to select some books and copy or move them together once. (now I can copy or move books one by one) In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer so...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy report without assigning new CAM ID

Our team uses a folder within Team Content (ex. BreakFix) in production to work on fixes and enhancements to existing reports in other Team Content folders (ex. Source) in production. We copy the report from Source folder to BreakFix, make the upd...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow upload of .py files for Jupyter Notebooks into CA

When working with Jupyter notebooks within a CA envrionment there appears to be no way to re-use python code from 1 book to the next as CA restricts the types of file types that can be uploaed. This means for any functions that you would like to r...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration