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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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Consumer-Root in Public Folder wthin Cognos-Office

On BI-Server there is a feature to restrict content browsing for Users in Public Folder: System.xml ...In Cognos-Office this feature is not aktice. User are able to browse the entire contents of Public Folder. This feature should be implemented in...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CMTools for Linux

Please provide tool like CMTools.exe for Linux.We are really interested in it's CMTop tab.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM, can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" . It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning cu...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export of filters to Excel from Workspace Advanced

When creating a report in Workspace Advanced with filters, when this report is exported to Excel the filters are not displayed in the spreadsheet as they are form other products. When run from Cognos Workspace and exported , the filters are shown....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dynamic naming of report output

I need an option to send a scheduled report via email and the name of the attached report should contain a dynamically changing date string. E.g.: report name stored in cognos connection is 'sales'. Report is scheduled and a filter is set to 'prev...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration