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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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Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Spooler error/Query error issue

Widely used package - huge filter - 20-30 prompt pages - more or less - don't like to save in HTML, like to bring into Excel - User experience is.. run in Thoughtspot (6 mos of data), night and day - maybe cached, whereas Cognos runs seasonal/18 m...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Missing job step details in my activities and schedules tab for end users

Hello, as end user I dont have anymore information about what is being executed as a step (report) inside a job. When I run a job and go in my activities and schedules in "current" tab, I see only the job running without information how many repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Spreadsheet Tabs when using Microsoft plug-in

When using the Cognos Microsoft plug-in to run a report via Excel, the report output is always to a single tab in the spreadsheet even when the report has pages setup to do tabs. We would like the Excel Spreadsheet to be generated with separate tabs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted