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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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Report sharing functionality

Description of Request from customer: ""We currently have 100 Advanced Business Authors and end Septemberwe're going to add additional 50 Business Intelligence Users. This willprovide 150 users with content creation capabilities. The purpose ofthe...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Like to export any report to Excel Data or CSV form

Customer has a complex report with multiple pages that contain crosstabs lists and master detail links that when run to Excel Data do not display an error message but instead gets a blank page. When creating a simple crosstab report and exporting ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add modeling feature to Dynamic Cubes similar to 'weight factors' in TM1

We'd like to have a modeling feature added to Dynamic Cubes similar toweight factors in TM1. Per the TM1 documentation: ""Weight factors determine the contribution of an element to aconsolidation. To express that the Connecticut sales total is a s...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Index Search should show reports a user has created when their username is searched

Client knows that he can filter his search results to see objects owned by particular users. When you search the actual username in the search field however those objects aren't displayed. Client would like to be able to search on objects owned by...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Workspace Advanced Profile Parameter Support

We need to be able to pass a profile to Workspace Advanced through a parameter on the URL query string. This would select the correct profile for a user with multiple profiles without prompting the user to choose.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance fault handling of Cognos BI in case of missing services

If distributed Cognos env or just single install.Enhance the fault handling if one or more service are (temporarily) missing/down in the way to buffer/queue the request instead of many failed requests causing many failed report execution
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Governor Setting Accessibility within Cognos Connection

Expose the governor settings on the Package Settings page in Cognos Connection and allow for the settings to be altered. For new packages I would default the exposed settings using the values defined in the Model. For re-publishing an existing pac...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to dynamically add missing dates to a report that don't exist in the database

When creating reports off a database that does not have a complete date dimension (meaning missing dates in the database). Cognos should be able to fill in the missing dates dynamically. For example:
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration