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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.

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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backup and restore of datasources

there should be a way of exporting only the datasources to allow for backup and restore of individual datasources instead of doing all DS;s at once
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Add justification options to widget titles

We can add titles to widgets (slider and select value filters), but the titles are only left justified. Add ability to choose left, center, or right justification
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

content store not using bind variables causing system issues.

This is to avoid hard parsing that causes performance degradation and un-necessary shared pool usage. Please see in the attached spreadsheet, there are 230 SQL statements that are originated for the cognos content store schema. Any application not...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Internet Explorer Windows Mode is not working for all functionalities in Report Studio or Query Studio

1) Query Studio or Report Studio• Could not drag and drop the dimensions that I want into the content box. • Reports could not be successfully exported out (be it 2002 or 2007 Ms Excel versions) consistently. Sometime it can be exported, somet...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non informative error message for conditional formatting

If I set up conditional formatting for List in Report Studio and then change underlying Query Subject for this List I'll get scary error "RSV-SRV-0040 The report server encountered an internal error.": http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1 Integration into Cognos-BI

We're using TM1 since decades for planning and reporting. The integration into BI so far is not well done: Performance is very bad and also core features like subsets are not available in BI.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for all High Availability Disaster Recovery features for all supported Content Store Databases

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence does currently not offer support for High Availability Disaster Recovery Features (HADR) of Databases that are used as Content Stores. Full support for all HADR Features of each supported Content Store Database Typ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add (designer specifiable?) "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons to slider filter

Slider filters refresh the data as soon as a value is "selected".Usually one needs at least 2 values (lower and higher) before the desired result is obtained, and sometimes even more right / left slides, until the desired resolution is obtained.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Please provide Rows,Columns,Context Bar similar to Analysis Studio

Analyis Studio provides an area where we can easily drop items to display on rows or columns. They also have handle which makes it super easy to move the items around to change nesting order or transpose from rows or columns.Workspace Advanced doe...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration