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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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bring back history of a job

We have Cognos 11.1.3. In previous versions of Cognos, we could view the run history of a job under advanced properties of the job tab (see run history of a job not there.png). We need this information in order to determine when a job was run last...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

saving data with a mouse-click instead of writing code through JDBC connector in CSV or other formats

I can currently browse it in the UI/IDE using the various inspectors. It would be nice if I could easily save this data to a file with a mouse click rather than having to write code, or add JDBC connections and rerun the model, etc. Typically what...
about 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Extract Dynamic Cube Model

Provide the ability to extract a dynamic cube model from the Cognos content store, similar to the methods used to extract a framework manager model.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Category - custom calculation is defeating Zero suppression

When we add a custom calculation in PAX exploration mode for a variance for example, it is defeating the zero suppression and showing these custom calc rows when all the values are zero. Need this to meet the zero suppression logic everything else...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Ontape Point-in-Time Restores for Tables

The archecker tool can be used for point-in-time restores of table data from Level 0 Informix backups in conjunction with whatever logs were created after the Level 0 backup. However, if an organization does one Level 0 backup per week, then they ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Applications and Plans: Approver email link takes user to Contributor tab

When an Approver gets an email to Approve a task, the email link generated takes the user to the Contributor tab. This seems to be the case where the approver is part of the contributor and approver groups assigned to the relevant task. 1. Email s...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Applications and Plans: Overview Visualizations

Carhartt Business users would like to have visualisations of the Overview tab incorporated to easy track & view the status of their tasks. Included in this, a status visualisation showing only the tasks that they are assigned to. For example, ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration