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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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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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Provide the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in Emails

Hi, We would like to have the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in the emails generated from Cognos system in Cognos Analytics product. This ability was available in Cognos 10 by updating the ui_hide element in one of the sy...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Publish, change impact, and report dependencies

It would be nice to have the same funcionality for publish, change impact, and report dependencies like in Framework Manager
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Ability to adjust attributes of users via REST API such as the tenant-id

With use of the REST API we create users in our multi tenant environment to automate the onboarding of new customers and new users. While doing this we would like to assign a user directly to the correct tenant. We experience that adding the tenan...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Possibility to hide a column in the Dashboard tables

To be able to sort a table by a column which is not visible. This is sometimes required by users eg. when there is need to have table sorted by a specific column but its values are not wanted to be shown for various reasons (they want to have as s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Add Comboboxes as new prompting control

This is a request of a new Prompting control which is a combination of the existing text box prompt (type-in), value prompt (drop down) and search & select prompt. The user should be able to select a value within the text box. A source / stati...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

Cognos Dashboard Responsive Template

A self Dashboard needs to display properly at any browser width. This can be achieved by dynamically updating the layout of UI components, shrinking the size of UI components, and/or toggling which UI components are visible on the page. The user s...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration