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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.

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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Hide Queries option in report studion 11.1+ as it was in all previous versions

ad-hoc users should not have ability create custom SQLs or joins in report studio.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Spectrum Symphony not compliant with C++17

We are migrating Banks C++ code to make it compliant with C++17 version and have noticed that IBM Spectrum Symphony is not compliant with C++17 (realeased 6 years ago). We are already receiving syntaxis warnings indicating that certain headers hac...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Delivered

Role customization to control features at more granular level

We have extensively used "User Interface Profiles" in Cognos 10.2.2. After upgrading to Cognos Analytics 11 R5, this feature is deprecated and there is no control over providing different reporting capabilities to different user groups based on th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Separate ability to run dashboard from ability to create dashboard

Modify security for dashboards to allow consumers to be able to run dashboard without granting them access to create dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Controller Web Exclude certain IC journals from Reconciliation tab

Elimination of intercompany revenues are often configured as a "one-legged" elimination. That is selling company reports an intercompany revenue. This is then eliminated and also booked against a cost account. The buying company do report an inter...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Profile Table Enhancement for local applications

Profile Tables today support only remote connections and no support for local/batch applications. When PT is used to set certain registers, it only works for remote applications and local apps needs to be changed to add certain SET commands.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Provide a ZPARM to prevent creating new non UTS-tablespaces

I have converted all single table tablespaces to UTS, but some days later new non UTS-tablespaces were created, which I again converted. And again new ones were created, so this process could go for ever.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Review reports in Controller Web, general

In Controller Web it's possible to create Reports in the section "Review". Unfortunately every user has to create his/her own reports. Would be preferable if an admin user could create reports accessible for all users, trough the "Review" selection.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Replacement for DB Link to allow sensible database access from OPL

DB Link functionality was removed from version 12.7 and this prevents the sensible accessing of databases from OPL by removing the availability of DBConnection, DBRead, DBUpdate and DBExecute. Whilst there were various issues and bugs with the dat...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered