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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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Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add missing geographic boundaries in Belgium in the Map file for the visualisation map

Add geographic boundaries in the Map file for the visualisation map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide greater navigation in report studio

In version 10 we could right click on a list object and navigate to the query behind. Now we have to user a few more clicks to get to this in a no so direct way.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect language setting for the report column's header

Please refer to TS005375120: - Set Content language to English - Define 2 queries that can be joined - Join the Queries to create a 'joined query' - Create a report showing a list on the joined query and a list for each of the original queries - R...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Prompt screen for Manual Job Run

We have a few jobs set up to run manually. But the prompt page for the report in the job is not popping up and users have set prompt value going through edition options. That cause a few issue with security and we have re set up the job if the use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager's http requests must have host header with proper value

See the following ticket for more details: TS005317880. We use Cognos Framework Manager 11.0.11. The host header in some Framework Manager's http requests is incorrect.Instead to be the dispatcher's host name, the host header value is the name of ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Number of Users in a group or role.

Hi Team, After I reached out to the IBM support team for Cognos, I am reaching out to our regarding one of the specific requirement we have in our Banking Organization. Below is the details. Objective : Restrict number of users in a particular gro...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Highlight of selected columns in Report

While creating a report/ in edit mode, when user clicks on a column, the particular column must be highlighted. This will allow user to identify which column is selected to apply the filter on.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration