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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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dashboard conditional formatting

The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Studio Compatibility for Microsoft Edge

Since Internet Explorer will be sunset soon, my client has decided MS Edge will be the 'standard' for our user base. Currently we have approximately 300 Query Studio users that can successfully use Query Studio with Edge, but only if Internet Expl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prevent groups from accessing 'Send Report by Email' delivery option

Our client deals with very sensitive data that cannot be sent over email. We would like the ability to restrict certain groups from using email as a delivery method because of this. However we would still like to avail of email for job notificatio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Groups

I hope in the future there is a out the box report that can show users in all groups. This will help with Audits.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

possibility to distribute event files over many directories or subdirectories

If there are thousands of event files under 1 directory the speed to access the files will be slow and much faster if distributed over many directories
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum LSF's k8s support

Spectrum LSF used to provide an adapter for k8s as a container orchestration to use with LSF's job scheduling as its add-on function, which is withdrawn now. The customer would like to restore it so they could improve portability/availability and ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Leverage Reference Data Sets in DQ Rules

When reference data sets have been uploaded into / created in WKC allow them to be used in the DQ rules logic.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support Custom Javascript Modules in Saved HTML Output

After converting our javascript to Custom Control and Page Modules in CA 11 we observed that our javascript modules are not loaded when users view Saved HTML report outputs.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement Settings to modify limitation of Report Output versions Globally

Need to have enhancement in Cognos so that we can setup limit on number of report output versions globally rather than for each report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration