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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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Data modules - Possibility to control access to different data sources

We want to control which data sources (Packages, Data sets, Files, Data Modules, Databases) our customers could use when they create and edit data modules. Currently there is no possibilty to restrict the available data sources. Initially they sho...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Load offline base maps to Cognos

Load offline base map to Cognos
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

"Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved

In Cognos 11.0.7 Environments , the "Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved. Ideally the date and time should change only after some modifications to the report are done and save button is clicked
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Files Limits Configurable per user group

Within Cognos 11, you can identify a size limit per upload and a max size limit per user. However, if you modify these limits, you are affecting all users of the environment who can upload files. Ideally, it would be helpful for some users that be...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"No Data" option on Dashboard visualisations

We need the ability to display something more intuitive to users if filtering a dashboard makes a visualisation return "No Data".
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Link to Source Report for Report Views

Link to source report from report views has been removed. We use lot of report views with set prompts and do change these prompjt values from time to time also point report views to other reports when a newly developed report is to used.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Enable the possibilities to a Cognos Expert to add new Vendor Specific Function entry for not supported database (eg. Redshift)

The purpose of Cognos is to allow each user not to know the language of the Database used, lacking the list of functions into the Expression Definition for some databases, the goal of the product fails. users are not helped to understand what are ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upgrades: Stop schedules upon import but not disable

Upon import, allow the administrator to turn off all schedules to prevent them from running in two locations at the same time (the old instance and the new). This is most relevant when upgrading. Note, this must be a separate option than enable/di...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration