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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

TM1/PAL server able to connect to more than one BI environment with integrated security mode 5

Today it is easy to hit limits on connecting one TM1/PAL instance to only one CA11 environment as there is only one BI environment to be configured in tm1s.cfg for authentication. IntegratedSecurityMode = 5 ClientCAMURI = http://gateway.domain...
over 5 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.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

G Suite integration with Cognos

CAFE or Go Office do not support Google sheets/ Google docs. They are supposed to work only with Microsoft office suite. However, we need to make go office or café work with G-Suite. That was concluded by case TS000281895
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DataItem's and Filter's names changing/notchanging both in C11.0.5 and C11.0.6

Data items' names are changing in copied queries.Flter's names are changing in copied queries. Data item's names within the calculations are changing in copied queries. Also they are NOT changing when the queries are reffered. Feature of changing ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 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

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