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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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Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Validate against Google BigQuery sources should submit DryRun queries

Validation of a calculation in a Framework Model against a BigQuery source results in a query executed against the data source without filters. This incurs cost and may exceed resource limits defined for that environment.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When we run the report, we need a function that generates a dynamically permanent link

Currently, there is no ability to create a permanent link, creating a permanent link by using the 'ReportPath function'.In this case, if we change the File Name or Path, permanent link that we created before the change can not be linked.Like a Reo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Hide Specific Portal Items per Group ie Schedule Priorities

We want to control the schedule priorities for some users without them having the option to change them. In order for priorities to work the users needs the capability but this also means that they can change the priority too. We would want to cre...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to use expressions or functions in conditional layout for page dependent values.

Add the ability to include the list header only on the first page of the report and not have it repeating across all pages. The conditional statements work fine when in interactive HTML but not in batch (PDF, HTML etc).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Defined Error Messages

Our team is using CA to connect to TM1 packages, and often times we run into connection issues. It will always give us the same message "DIMM-ERR-1007", but the root cause could be completely different each time.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Ability to pin favorite properties or set some properties on top

What new is in Cognos Analytics (compared with Cognos 10) is the ability to pin favorite items of the toolbox. It should be very powerful when this functionality is also available in the properties pane. When you are designing the page, you can ch...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Move or copy reports (including custom step options) between different jobs

Moving a report (including the custom step options) from one job to another job is too complicated. The only option to do this is to delete the report in one job and add the report in the other job. So you have to define the step options again whi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easier way to implement name change of 'My Content' and 'Team Content'

We are migrating thousands of users from Cognos 10.2.1 to Cognos 11.1.4. For transparency we would like to keep the naming of 'My Folders' and 'Public Folders'. Currently in Cognos 11, it's 'My Content' and 'Team Content'.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration