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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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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,

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  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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Add tool top to Cognos Report Column Header

User Runs Report. Hovers ouse over Column Headings . Able to see more description or screen tip
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding User to Groups: One place to add a User to Multiple Role/Group at a time

Strange enough that you can add multiple Users to a Role or Group but you can't do the opposite It gets a bit or quite frustrating when you need to repeat the same steps to find Roles/Groups to add a User to
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a reference to the alwaysUseDefaultSender property in Cognos documentation

This is logged in behalf of a client, as he was not aware of the possibility to set alwaysUseDefaultSender advanced property to ensure all schedules with email delivery are sent from one default notifications email address until prompted by the su...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Server Install

Would prefer to run Lifecycle manager from a server rather than a desktop, but can't do that because when you log off a server, then it disables the application. Would like to be able to leave the machine and still leave the Lifecycle Manager stil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hidden Query related issue

A Report Studio report contains hidden query items. Is it possible to export to CSV and not show the hidden columns? Please see this technote as a workaround. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hidden-query-items-appear-csv I wrote PMR ## Response ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration