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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,

  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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capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI - Assigning portal pages to Cognos Groups and Roles from within Cognos Administration without SDK

We need to assign IBM Cognos BI 10.2.2 Portal pages to Cognos Groups and/or Roles from within Cognos Connection (Cognos Administration) - not only to single users - without SDK!
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Save As show Recent Saved Folder NOT Team Content root

When creating Different Version of a Dashboard, each time I want to save a New Version, I would go to Save As and see my Recent Folder which I have saved Previous VersionsYet, each Time I go to Save As, it brings me back to Team Content (root) whi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow OTHER CA environments report on TM1 database secured with mode 5 (CAM)

Currently, when a TM1 server is configured with IntegratedSecurityMode=5 (CAM), only that one CAM environment can report on that TM1 database. No other CA environment can query that TM1 database. To workaround that limitation, customers have to se...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Data Server and Data Source Connection Management

To add on to: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013646 Under the "Admin Classic UI," I see both Data Server and Data Source Connections. With a couple of hundred Analytics Users who will likely create a few Data Server Connectio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Automated Data Quality Assessment

This feature would enable users to identify and address data quality issues within their datasets seamlessly. The system should perform checks for missing values, outliers, inconsistencies, and other data anomalies. It could also provide suggestio...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

timeout notification

For accessibility Compliance of WCAG 2.1 - LEVEL A- Compliance 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable, We need to provide a notification of timeout to our end users for any time less than 20 hours. I understand that there are options for the user to extend time,...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration