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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 11.0.7 "Link to Package" functionality is not Available

Product : Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 Issue : Users are facing difficulties to re link their package in Cognos 11.0.7 reports. Description : Users used to change the package (Re link) for their report by just clicking the report properties and then by...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow non-intrusive RENAME of Constraint Names

Allow for a non-intrusive RENAME of any type of CONSTRAINT name. Primary Key, Foreign Key, CHECK and UNIQUE Constraint names should be available for RENAME. Currently, changing Constraint names requires the Constraint to be dropped and re-created ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suggestion for improvement - Reports-Run

Dear IBM-Developper-TeamWhen opening Reports - Run the window looks as follows:Left hand side: Reports and FormsUpper right corner: Dimension and Code used to run the reportlower right corner: empty - This part could be used for a report preview.E...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems the same as in data module

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems as in data module
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Users and groups to control file system issue

Customer have went with linux users and groups to Control file system level access and while it gives us what we want, it does cause some components of the engine to crash due to file permission issues where the dsadm group doesn't have privileges...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration