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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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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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Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

auto summary's default value cannot be set as 'false' when using List object for Cognos report

I tried this on version 11.2.4 with the document for 11.0.12, but it didnt work. (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-auto-group-and-summarize-false-default-report-lists) Modifying "AutoListGroupSummaryBehavior" values to "false" in "Default...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

To and CC fields dynamic when bursting.

When bursting a report, need the ability to change the To and CC fields based on columns in report.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted