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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,

  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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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
over 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
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
about 7 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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pass through SQL

Hi, We are looking for an Audit Report or an SDK Functionality to identify the number of pass through sql reports used in a Environment Thanks.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Secure "attach report to email" as a package or report level capability

Within an organization, different data owners often have different policies about attaching data/reports to email. Cognos Analytics should support a more granular configuration for this permission.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

CAM Copy User Security Group Assignment

In the current design of CAM, the administrator can copy a group and it is working fine. However, when we want to copy a user's profile, it became impossible, as there is no visibility for us to know what group the user is belong to. In many occas...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

create schedules but not reports

To create more fine-grained permissions, so we could grant "Write schedules" but prohibit "Write reports", or something like that
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration