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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Ability to limit report output options

We have sensitive report content that we don't want the user to have the ability email/export/save. Only view in Cognos Connection
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

PAW - Close all open books

In PAW the functionality to close all open books is missing. Currently a user has to close one book at a time. A functionality similar to TM1 Web "Close all" and "Close others" is desirable.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Operator action from CPCS Entries is not getting logged in SystemLogs Screen

When an operator manually updates a flag in CPCS Entries Screen, the detail is getting logged in Audit database table and not displayed in UI SystemLogs screen. It would be beneficial as MIS supporting the application to see everything on the UI S...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Functionality for retrieving inactive users added for API

Current minimal attribute API doesn't retrieve disabled users, only active ones. We propose to also have an opportunity to retrieve the inactive users. This would enable us to make the user management automatic as currently there is no way to disa...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Not under consideration

Working system-calls from sysadmin tasks with Informix for Windows

Automatic Backup Tasks started from within the sysadmin-scheduler don't work on windows systems. The same problem with every other system-call. This is a Windows-specific problem. On Linux systems this works as intended.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Measure Icon on Fact Query subjects in Report Studio and Query Studio as in Framework Manager

If Report Studio and Query Studio display measure icon at the query subject level would be easy to differentiate between facts and dimensions. Framework Manager does display measure icon (scale icon) for the query subjects apart from actual measur...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to specify column width and row height in PAW

Currently it is not possible to specify a value for row height and column width for exploration views in Planning Analytics Workspace. Such a feature would make it easier to achieve the desired layout of exploration views.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists