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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 Analytics

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Capability to Hide/Remove Export to Excel option from Workspace

We are looking to secure option to take report Export in Excel/CSV for all BI tools. This would mean that only selected users those are part of a particular user group will be allowed to run report in Excel/CSV. We had raised multiple PMRs and exp...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability for "Copy and Edit" option in "More"

when I am copying an object, it is usually because I need to make a change via editing the object. It would be really helpful to add to the "more" list, Copy and Edit.I make a copy, rename it and OK, then I need to edit object to make the changes ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove restrictions in visualizations on data item type like measures

to make the visualization definition more flexible and easier for users it would be beneficial to remove the restrictions on item type. Typically there are visualization where you can drag in some part only measures. These restrictions make it com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mapping of the parameter user name - official documentation by IBM

Request relates to the case TS007570460 from IBM support. The subject matter is the inappropriate mapping of the parameter user name in CP4D, i.e. ambigous mapping of user name. By default the mapping of the user name in CP4D is not equal to the m...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Relative date enhancement

In K-12 and Higher education organizations, we have terms. Would like to be able to setup a term to be able to compare it like current month to previous month, using a concept like relative dates.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos allow other members from PA cube to be used as members and enable multiple widget connections

I would like to be able to use all dimensions from OLAP source as measures in visualizations. Currently I can only compare members that are in measure dimension in KPI visualization. This makes it so that you cant compare Actual vs Budget or any m...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Double Click selection Prompt Options

Double Click selection Prompt Options. Provide a double Click prompt in the "Search & Select" prompt. This prompt enables Add Fields / Remove Fields via double clicking on an item. Targeted for Report Studio
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Banner & Alerts on Connections Page

Banner & Alerts on Connections Page. Provide the option to setup and maintain a banner on the Connections page. This banner would have the flexibility to be setup with messaging to inform a user that report data was updated or not from batch. ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Get the Cognos Analytics French Help go directly to IBM french help page

When a user clicks help ("Aide") From a French Cognos Analytics UI he should be directed to a French IBM help web page. This was the case within previous versions (e.g. Cognos 10.2.1, 8 & CRN1.1 MR4)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration