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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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SQL query subject not getting updated anyhow.

We are not able to update the query items of the query subject in cognos report studio using the sql .If you are using sql then you have to create a new query subject to get the data items available in the query .if you tried to use the existing q...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use credential manager to save the ID to be used tos ave report outputs

Use different credential in windows server to save the report output in the external report share
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capturing activity on audit report from drill-thru links

We created a Cognos report that shows who has accessed specific reporting on our server. However, we are unable to see all the activity for a report that has drill-thru links to other reports. In this case, a user is able to choose between report...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show detailed error message in Cognos Analytics Data Module- Cognos 11.0.12

Team, We are using the Data module functionality more often. We are not receiving the detailed error message in the screen if there is any issue with the underlying data. It is just showing the standard error message "Can not load grid data: An ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox for multi-select prompts during report validation

In Cognos 11, there is no checkbox for selecting multiple values during report validation of a report containing a multi-select parameterised filter on hierarchy of dimension. Right now we are using the Ctrl key to select values, but it is very di...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need cognos analytics support for Siteminder CA siteminder 12.8 version

Hi, as per supported document of Cognos analytics 11.0.x, it says that it supports CA SiteMinder "12.5 and future fix packs". CA siteminder 12.5 is an old version and they would stop supporting this old version. Our company is planning to upgrade ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide the default values for all governors in the documentation

Add the default values for all governors in the documentation
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration