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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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Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for migrating reports in a multitenant environment

In a multi-tenant Cognos Analytics on Cloud environment, it is not feasible to migrate reports from one environment to another using the tools currently available. The import and export tools are only present in Cognos Administration, and copy the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto Start Play Stories

My company has several TV monitors throughout our factory floor we use display Cognos dashboards with performance metrics. We would like to use stories to show more information across multiple slides. One pain point preventing us from implementing...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Filter entities in advanced search by record_count

Allows for the ability to filter on singletons, something we need to manually do via an export right now (which has limitations if we go over >500k entities exported). This would increase user ability to do deeper searches.
7 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add Estimated Percentage Complete for database restore in db2 list utilities show detail

When backup is executing and in another session "list utilities show detail" is executed there is e.g. "Estimated Percentage Complete = 30" displayed. But when restore is performed this estimated percentage is missing. Please add this info for res...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

default path to save new report

For new reports, Cognos Analytics always default the save path to location of the latest data source used in the report. This default option is not convenient in our environment as we keep separated Data Sources and Reports in different folder str...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for inclusion of custom Cognos "Hints" within Reports & Dashboards

Interactive reports and dashboards, when designed well, are mostly self-explanatory to use. However, there is often a need for just bit of user instruction. There are ways to build this in today using HTML items, javascript, links to external docu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration