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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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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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Change fonts of the Recent viewed report

With version 11.1.5 we can't read the full name of the reports when we see the recent viewed reports, the workaround for now is to view the list. It would be great if we can change the font size.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set scrollable area height for lists in other metric units (like percentage, cm, etc.)

On some occasions we make a scrollable report for customers. In this situation the reports we make contains one or more lists with a lot of items where the customer can scroll to find his information. Because not all users have the same computer...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report views in Life Cycle manager

It would be very usefull to test report views in Life Cycle Manager, but on this moment report views are not supported.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking CANCEL on "Report is Running" popup should not return to Public Folder, Should Stay in Prompt Page

Include Functionality Change in how Report running process is currently executed in Cognos BI. When the report has Multiple Prompts in 1 Prompt Screen and 1 of them is cascaded with the other, then there are situations when 1st Prompt selection ru...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Add Lineage as in Report Studio for Data Items

add ability to see lineage in Event studio like we have in Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set time restriction on reporting schedules

When scheduling a report, I would like to designate times when end users are not able to schedule their reports.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Will Cognos support 4096 bit encryption strenth in future versions ?

Cognos currently accommodates 2098 encryption key strength. Will Cognos release a version within the next 15 months that can accommodate a strength of 4096?
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow System Administrator to have a custom folder(s)

As a follow up to the following, we are requesting a modification to allow system administrators to have a custom folder on the navigation bar. PI79148: CUSTOM FOLDER FEATURE DOESN'T WORK FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR(http://www-01.ibm.com/support/...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration