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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Selecting other data module in reporting

Selecting other data module in reporting: make it possible to have two data modules in the report module next to a package
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide option to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module

Unable to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pulsar platform connection

Pulsar being used as an event stream, all operational system updates are being pushed as new messages. Required for Match 360 record updates, and periodic DQ checks on WKC.
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

ADA Compliance: On activating Tab key after selecting Learn button, focus moves to Home button

Steps to Reproduce: 1)Navigate -> Authoring and Analysis 2)In IBM Cognos Analytics screen, move focus to Learn button 4) Activate Enter key, Learn menu expands 5) Activate Tab key and verify the focus order On activating Tab key after selecting...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Modify recent projects on home page

When you first log into cloud pak for data there is a section on the home page that shows Recent Projects. However recent projects doesn't update by the most recent project that you have opened and used, it appears to be updated by modified date. ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Visualizations Vanish when at 0 (or not applicable)

If a "Summary" visualization has a "0" value, can that visualization literally not show up?
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration