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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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Add a reference to the alwaysUseDefaultSender property in Cognos documentation

This is logged in behalf of a client, as he was not aware of the possibility to set alwaysUseDefaultSender advanced property to ensure all schedules with email delivery are sent from one default notifications email address until prompted by the su...
almost 6 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.
about 10 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 ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay in logging of CM-REQ-2xxx messages in cogserver.log file

The cogserver.log file take long time to get updated with CM-REQ-2299 and CM-REQ-2300 messages, when export/import operations are performed through trigger.sh utility
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove underline from text objects (especially for Hyperlink class)

I would like to have the option in the Report Module to remove underlines from text objects (Hyperlink classes). As of now we only have the option to enable underline for text objects.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve the speed for Excel import in Cognos For MS Office

To display in MS Excel, some list reports ran in Excel format take four to five time longer than ran in Excel data.We know that import format is not the same (CSV Vs. LDX) but it would be great if the speed could be improved
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate MotioCI with Cognos Analytics SaaS

This MotioCI application(https://motio.com/products/motio-ci/) which is an addendum to Cognos application provides user friendly support by majorly enabling version control. This integration/ deployment of MotioCI application in cloud will help ma...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Functionality already exists

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Analysis, Workspace etc. directly from the package

Currently, we are able to see only Report and Dashboard creation options, in the 'More' options of the package. It will be convenient if we can open all other studios, like Event, Analysis, Workspace, etc., directly from the package itself.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration