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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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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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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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Cognos Analytics

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Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable to embed microcharts in tables (lists) in dashboard module

In Report Module you can add (legacy) microcharts in a list. I would like to have this also available in the dashboard module: adding a microchart to a table widget (list).
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Set Capability in Teamcontent and on Datasources/Dataservers

In Cognos, I want to set role/group base capability on items in Team Content and on datasources/dataservers. Users have permissions on lots of sources, like datasources/dataservers, datamodules and packages, because users run Cognos reports and da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Add Scope as filter in the GUI on Past Activities

We no longer allow our end users monitor their schedules from the administration console. Instead, they now use the option from the GUI accessible from either "My schedules and subscriptions" or "Manage-Activities". In both latter cases, they have...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

Data source support for SAP BW4/HANA

SAP announced new BW4HANA platform at autumn 2016, which is a performance optimized and much simpler approach than old BW on HANA solution, which IBM does support. BW4HANA should be added as supported data source to allow high-performance access t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Empty date prompt

At the moment it is not possible to create a date prompt of the prompt page that has an empty value as default. It shows always the actual date when no default value is set or when the default value is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

use microcharts in the dashboard module

in the legacy report module it is possible to add microcharts in lists. This is not possible anymore in the dashboard module, and also not available as a new 11.* visualization. I would like the microchart to be available in the dashboard module a...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted