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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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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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Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder structure within Cognos Mobile App

The ability to create a folder structure within the Cognos Mobile App so that the entry screen to downloaded reports is not cluttered and can be organised into groupings
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos mobile for Blackberry Dynamics: support a connection via a proxy

The current version of Cognos Mobile for Blackberry Dynamics only supports a direct connection. For security reasons we are using a proxy sever and have connection problems using de Cognos mobile app.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports

Need to be able to add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports to properly calculate so a viable offline solution can be provided that is in line with Standard Reports. Right now without the ability to do post-aggregation the % value on the viz chart i...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query Content Store to find schedules for particular email recipient

Cognos should have ability to query content store database, to retrieve details like - How many schedules have a particular email id as recipient. It may be possible via audit, but only when the schedules are running.- How many schedules are creat...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dymanic cross-tabulation with process execution

I would like to know how to display data in Cognos from a pivot table with process execution existing in IBM planning. In IBM planning there is a function to add an action button and you can add a process (as in the screenshot) and you can also sy...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration