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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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Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Cubes support for mySQL

Dynamic Cubes cannot currently be modelled for mySQL (schemaless database)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LifeCycle Manager Default User

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, you could assign a default user and password, but then didn't have to input it ever again. I am getting prompted 3 different times to get to a project just so I can look at it or edit it. That is extreme...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recent list showed in welcome page don't show Shortcuts names

We have hundreds of Shortcuts and used them to give business names to a same report. But they don't appear in the recent list with the Shortcut name but with the report source name. Creating confusion between our users.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Reporting Time Functions should use the Time zone set in Cognos Global Configuration

Reporting Time Functions and Tool box items should use the time zone that has been defined in Server Time Zone in Global Configuration.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager should permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures

the current Framework Manager 11.1.1 does not permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures without need for prompts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filter Behavior in Interactive Mode

When filter is added to the layout in interactive mode, and filtered data set is returned, there is no visual indication that the additional filter was applied. Target application: Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt vs. Tree prompt Settings

1- It would be useful to have a "Show Select All" option in the bottom of the Tree prompt box (same as Value prompt)2 - It would be useful that the same color would be used when hovering over the available options of a prompt box so that the color...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Simplify visualization libraries

Today in CA we have legacy visualization, 11.0 visualization, 11.1 visualizations and maybe soon 11.2 visualization. All my clients find it cumbersome, incomprehensible and incoherent. I think it's necessary to set up the old library conversions t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release