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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,

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  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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Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics, have to change zoom for it to appear when using Cognos Analytics to create a report.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

SQL query subject not getting updated anyhow.

We are not able to update the query items of the query subject in cognos report studio using the sql .If you are using sql then you have to create a new query subject to get the data items available in the query .if you tried to use the existing q...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capturing activity on audit report from drill-thru links

We created a Cognos report that shows who has accessed specific reporting on our server. However, we are unable to see all the activity for a report that has drill-thru links to other reports. In this case, a user is able to choose between report...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show detailed error message in Cognos Analytics Data Module- Cognos 11.0.12

Team, We are using the Data module functionality more often. We are not receiving the detailed error message in the screen if there is any issue with the underlying data. It is just showing the standard error message "Can not load grid data: An ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use credential manager to save the ID to be used tos ave report outputs

Use different credential in windows server to save the report output in the external report share
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance handling of responses received for XHR requests by App.-Server

Testcase: * Login and use the portal * Shutdown App.-Server or loose network connection * Click on portalitem Depending on the product in use (administration, report editor, dashboard, portal, navigation pane, ...) => results in technical err m...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Checkbox for multi-select prompts during report validation

In Cognos 11, there is no checkbox for selecting multiple values during report validation of a report containing a multi-select parameterised filter on hierarchy of dimension. Right now we are using the Ctrl key to select values, but it is very di...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration