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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Dynamic User Recipients in Event Studio

User reports can sometimes fail on the server when run in background. Cognos does not alert users when this happens (except for send failures which is post execution). I have created an event/agent which runs against the Audit package every 15 min...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow a report to be updated with an updated XML Spec (Open from clipboard) and saved without losing the report outputs and history

Sometimes, when promoting report changes from Pre-Prod to Production, it is necessary to bring an XML Report Spec into the environment. Currently, if you bring a report spec in and open it from the clipboard, then save the report, it removes all o...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Submitted

Add full interactivity to reports as it is in dashboards

Better, more user friendly and consistent user experience across both dashboards and reports.
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Link Finish/run button to the [Enter]-key

Link Finish/run button to the [Enter]-key Set up [Enter]-key to be linked to the Finis/Run button to apply adjusted filter conditions without having to click on the button. Purpose: Better user experience, eliminate unneccesary scrolling.
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Update "drop down list" value prompt to support functionality to select multiple values.

Update "drop down list" value prompt to support functionality to select multiple values. purpose: Preferable to have a prompt that support selecting multiple values with this format to save space for report content
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

When docking the interactive toolbar, the toolbar should not be on separate row.

When docking the toolbar, the tollbar should no longer be on a separate row but instead be moved to the topbar (next to HTML). Purpose/Advantage: Creates more space for report content
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Missing feature in Cognos Analytics Report that was present in the Legacy Query Studio

As our organization looks to transition out of Query Studio (QS), one of our users pointed out a missing feature in the new Report Interface. When filtering on dates in QS, they have been using a nifty feature called ‘Last Number of Days’ filter w...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review