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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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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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  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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Cognos Analytics

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Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

URL Integration API to integrate Cognos Analytics 11 User Interface into embedded applications

Need the ability to integrate Cognos Analytics user interface into embedded applications. Similar to the capability we had with Cognos 10.2.2 to embed reports and components. Included must be the ability to pass parameters and pass logon/logoff na...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Receive notifications/alerts when Cognos environment goes down

Receive notifications/alerts when Cognos environment goes down
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drawing a circle with radius for a latitude longitude point in the visualization map

Drawing a circle with radius for a latitude longitude point
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Editing icons

The ability to edit an icon no longer appears in Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Cognos Axes

Issue with Axes in Cognos reports, please go thru enclosed document, it has the details
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

disable email notification during cognos startup

"disable email notification during cognos startup"Currently, there is no proper way to switch off this functionality.I believe that this functionality would not be use friendly if there is no proper way to switch off or change the email recipient.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration