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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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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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Batch job to convert Dashboards to new Cognos Version

When IBM deploys a new series release (e.g. 11.0, 11.1, 11.2), users are prompted to resave the dashboard to 'convert' it to the new series and stop the convert/save message from reappearing on the screen. We are an OEM shop with many clients usin...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add a standard disclaimer(Notes) to outgoing cognos 11 reports

How to add a standard disclaimer to outgoing cognos 11.06 reports.When user selects DELEVERY OPTION: E-MAIL REPORTwe would like user to get e-mailed report with standard disclaimer (notice or warning which is added to an outgoing email)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube Designer: Select standard folder for cubes

It would be useful to select a standard folder for the publishing of the cube-packages. The standard folder should be set for every dynamic cube.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO for snowflake datasource

We have a feature built using .net to upload a file and filter the data in cognos based on the content in the file, while running the reports. This is used to apply a filter for over 100 records. This feature works based on the user login id. If w...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Adapt the name of the export file to the license information

The name of the export file for the used licenses should contain the name of the environment / server. So an assignment is better possible
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Report Template on the Fly

It would be very handy to have the ability to change the selected template for a report during it's development and not have to start over it you need to switch from Freeform to a predetermined layout.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cannot copy/paste from Team content to Users' My content

I didn't find a way to copy a report from Team content to a User My content ... in v10 I just had to click checkbox in front of the report, hit copy button, then go in the security, browse to find the user My folder, go in and Paste. Now the only ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: modify email body

In Event Studio, I would like to modify texts and email body when sending an email.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration