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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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Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Timezone for Cloud should be matching to Local Timezone

Currently all Controller-on-Cloud server (for all customers) are in UTC time-zone without the ability to change to reflect the Local date and time (eg. UTC +8). When reading when the reports were last refreshed or generated or saved, it is confusi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Number of Intercompany differences in Submission Overview

It would be very helpful if a user with lot of companies could view number of intercompany differences directly in the "Submission Overview" instead of opening company by company.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cancel Running Report for all Users

It should be possible for all users to cancel their Report running in the background. With R10 the functionality to Suspend a running Report was delivered, but we also need the ability to Cancel their running Reports for all users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to limit concurrent queries per user

We would like to have the advanced option to limit the parallel execution for jobs per user.In case user launches a job with many reports inside and select execution in parallel, this single user can overload the servers by taking all resources. T...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Train, increase and adapt the explainability phase for customer needs

The possibility for the explainability asset to have something like a dictionary, a repository... in order to train the model and having tailored fit answer. This repository would be populated by the customer and his assets and specification (for ...

Display Format Attributes - factor *100 /100

In a view, it would be advantageous if you could display 0.01 as 1 or 1 as the opposite 1 as 0.01. We have for example calculation elements in EUR and cents in a view. Currently, you you can only create a new element for the view for display purpo...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration