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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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Improved silent install/uninstallation options

See: Service request number 88956 999 649 for more details: All installs / uninstalls in our organization are done through SCCM silently. Employees do not have the ability to install or uninstall software packages themselves on their Windows 7/8 c...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to remove the localization from Report Filenames

at the moment you have no possibility to remote the localization from a Report Filename stored in FileSystem oder sent by mail. Exsample: Report1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.pdfReport1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.xlsx It would be nice,...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to add Excel 2013 as an output type in Run Report Options

When running a report, we currently have Excel 2007,Excel 2007 (data), Excel 2002 as report output formats.Customer is expecting a new format: Excel 2013 to be added to these report output types. note: I have raised this request on behalf of custo...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default setting for Use Set Aggregate

By default when create Totals in the cross-tab, the value of the Use Set Aggregate property is set to true. Need to have an ability to set default value to false.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict number of parallel batch reports per User or Tenant

It should be possible to restrict the number of batch reports run in parallel by a user and/or in a multi-tenant environment per tenant. This could be general parameters for the batch report service like "Number of parallel processes per user" or ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance no data handling for cross tab

Crosstab cannot be hide totally according to empty result set returned from the query. The suppression feature can archive it with side effect that rows and columns have to be suppressed individually which is not desired.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide updated and more detailed documentation of Cognos BI Audit Log tables and columns

Our client has a specific need to track what end users are receiving emailed report results generated out of Cognos. One way to identify these individuals appears to be by querying the email lists that are logged in the Audit Log database “AGENT...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

We need to use Global Exchange address book to select recipients for email lists

We need to use Global Exchange address book to select recipients for email lists
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt User for Credentials if Database Login Fails

We report off of an Oracle database using database credentials that expire after 30 days. When you run a report, you get prompted for a user name and password along with a checkbox that says “Remember my user ID and password when connecting to t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration