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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Set option on schedule to not send empty reports

It will be much easier if we had option on schedule to enable/disble empty reports send out. Now we can do this via Event Studio but its extra work.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performance of complex reports against TM1 with MTQ>1

Having complex reports (ie. burst or complex reports with multiple pages and master details) against a TM1 datasource, can have major performance impact on the TM1 server, depending on the settings.Behaviors that are experienced:- each burst key e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

My parameters feature - improved security evaluation

Hello, we are using the My parameters feature in cognos where from one place we can share the prompt selection cross many reports as default option. We have a lot of security in our system including data source/package levels. When using my parame...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Required Support for Dynamic LDAP groups

Our company is implementing Dynamic LDAP groups and as per the PMR: 22069,442,000 this is yet not supported by IBM Cognos 10.2.1. Without this enhancement to support it will be a challenge to take Cognos to UAT and Production
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve C11 URL performance

After C11 upgrade, we updated the C10 URL's embedded in some reports in order to use new URL syntax. The C11 URL's are slower.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Parametarized URL, passing Datasource Signon

For some datasource we have several Signon used for different group of people. Some people have suffisant privilege to use more than one Signon, so when launching a report, they are prompted for the Signon to use. The reports are launched from int...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration