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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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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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set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alert/notification of crypto keys expiration

Currently there is no way to tell when your Cognos Crypto keys will expire. It takes them expiring and the site not launching and causing errors before you are aware there is an issue.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization from Spreadsheet can refreshes automatically

Report as a datasource of visualization that can be run to scheduled to output to a spreadsheet/csv and the refreshed spreadsheet used as datasource. Currently manually uploaded spreadsheets are used as datasource. This can be ne time but graduall...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog E.g: Screen reader announces 'Edit options' for Edit options link
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Log all move copy and delete operations in the Audit database

When multiple MOVE, COPY, or DELETE requests are made at the same time (e.g. multiple reports check marked when a delete request is made), only one of impacted objects is logged in the Audit database. These types of actions against objects (e.g. r...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to return the status of the report/job execution run via trigger.bat

Client would like to have the ability in trigger.bat script to execute a report/job via trigger and return the status of the execution of the the report/job so that such implementation can be used to automate the report/job runs using automated to...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multilingual Reports

Hi Team, Is there any way to check which all reports use multinational languages? Like I need to get list of all the reports which are using report language variable with multiple languages. I need to check this for around 5000 reports which can b...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration