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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

SQL query subject not getting updated anyhow.

We are not able to update the query items of the query subject in cognos report studio using the sql .If you are using sql then you have to create a new query subject to get the data items available in the query .if you tried to use the existing q...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use credential manager to save the ID to be used tos ave report outputs

Use different credential in windows server to save the report output in the external report share
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Alphabetical Fonts

When using Cognos Analytics users are given the default fonts and google fonts. However, these fonts are ordered based on oldest to newest imported fonts. This leads to confusion of where the fonts are and should be organized alphabetically.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add Conformance for current Microsoft OLE DB Driver

Due to the fact that Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB) and SQL Server Native Client OLE DB provider (SQLNCLI) are deprecated - active support for the current OLEDB driver would need to be added. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Printing Uses User Credentials & Not Service Account

All printing requests to printers are sent using the account that the Cognos service is started against. This causes an issue for users who collect their printed output by providing a PIN. Their PIN relates to their own account and not the service...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select all the values in a Value Prompt by mouse right click and dragging the cursor

Users do multi-select in value prompt and 10.2.1 used to allow mouse right click and then just drag to multi select records. We will like to have same behavior in 11.1.X with value prompt in reporting.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration