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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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  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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Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Hide/Disable Print Report delivery option

Our standard users do not have ability to save report as a delivery option in Team Content. When running a report in background using Run As, the default delivery option is set to Print Report. We do not have print option configured for our users....
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

More than 2 cubes in a virtuel cube

Create possiblity to include more than 2 "base" cubes in a virtuel cube,
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Defaults - Reports

Would like a place in cognos administration that you can set 'global defaults'. I am particularly looking at wanting to set report defaults. I do not care if they are changeable, just want to set the defaults more pertinent to our company. On repo...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sorting schedules by name in Cognos Administration Portal

High need to sort schedules in the Administration portal by name and an easy way to search for a schedule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration