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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Improve filters for numeric attributes

It is not even the functionalities available for a numeric attribute than there is for the alphanumeric attributes. For the numeric ones, it only gives the option to 'Define a range' or 'Select individual items', but for the alphanumeric ones it a...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Report Outputs on a single Scheduled Mail

We have several different properties and each one have is own set of reports with their figures. As as corporate point of view, we wanted to have each report scheduled for daily email delivery. It is unpleasant to have 10 mails with 1 attachment a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

resource consumption auditing

my management team is asking for a report of the reports /dashboards within cognos that are consuming the most cpu resource. management wants to understand why we need to maintain the cpu allocation that we currently have for cognos. In order to p...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to edit Combined Filter from show filter option available in the Cognos 11.0.10 viewer

Not able to edit the Combined fitlers when we run the report from the Cognos 11.0.10 Viewer even though we specify the option 'Can be Changed in the Viewer' for the combined filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration