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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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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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Hidden Query related issue

A Report Studio report contains hidden query items. Is it possible to export to CSV and not show the hidden columns? Please see this technote as a workaround. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hidden-query-items-appear-csv I wrote PMR ## Response ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide option to run job in all at once mode

Hello, to avoid overloading the system especially by one user, we need to have option to disable/hide option to run jobs as all at once. This option is too dangerous as one user can create large jobs and take all the application resources.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Statistical Distribution Bins

There is no good functions for statistics: splitting a distribution into bins.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule reports during Certain Days of Month

We were looking for a ability to schedule the reports within a range of a month, like 1st to 10th of each month. Currently in Scheduling options we have either to run 1st day or 2nd day of the month, but could not specify range.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype in Cognos BI

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype************************************************************* The IEEE Standard IEEE 754-2008 (previously called IEEE 754r) for binary ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

General Filters need more functionality

The general filters that go at the TOP of the DashBoard need more functionality. They only allow clicking on the options, but there should be options that should be exclusive and unique, por example a Y/N, the filtre should be letting you optional...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

View filter selection values in Workspace Advanced Report

When making a report using Cognos Workspace Advanced the paramvalues from the selection made on the prompt page are not displayed as they were in query studio. When a user creates a filter that is prompted a report expression that shows the select...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration