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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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Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

JMeter Stability Package for Cognos Analytics

The 10.2.1 JMeter Stability Package does not run on Cognos Analytics. So an updated Version should be released.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to identify and monitor "scheduled" executions in the Audit database

Please also refer to Support Case "TS003490098" for more details. Our Cognos admin team regularly uses the Audit database to monitor Cognos activity by the end users. However, we have recently discovered that one important end user reporting behav...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Variables on visualizations as amount/length

Adding a variable to a chart amount/length field and make it available to select between them with a filter option. It would look similar than the "Navigation Path". Instead of attributes we can add measure fields here. Each new group of measures ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

gas gauge visualization

We need a "gas gauge" visualization to show performance
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Allow the server to automatically load the file" in Cognos Analytics 11.2+

Modern browsers have disabled sharing of full file path for security reasons. Cognos requires full path for this option to work but no modern browser will share full path. I ask if there are plans to change how it behaves on Cognos side to allow e...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Copy readable links with correct report/folder path

In Cognos 10 you can copy a folder or a report name in cognos connection. When you paste this to an Email, you get a readable link with the whole path. eg Folder1>Folder2>Reportname In Cognos 11 this is not possible. The only way is to sh...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request for PGP encryption for Cognos Analytics cube transfers

Our Cognos Analytics model requires several cubes to be build on-prem and then sent to the cloud. We understand these are encrypted once present on the IBM CA Cloud server. However, we'd like the capability to encrypt before sending them. NM can a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - ability to ADD a filter that the user cannot change

Assume I have a Bar Chart that includes a YEAR filter for 2 years of Data. At run time a User can Delete that FILTER and change what I want as permanent FILTER for that WIDGET.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release