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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

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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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Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ClassCastException to Support Integration with Dynatrace

We need to submit a request to enhance Cognos Analytics. Dynatrace is a system monitoring tool. It monitors your infrastructure (Server memory, CPU, etc.), as well as the application (in memory monitoring). When Dynatrace is enabled there is a fea...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Stop agent from continuously checking once condition is met in Event Studio.

Customer would like agent to stop running once condition has been met for that day.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add Columns as Suppression Options for Lists

Crosstabs provide 4 Suppression Options based on Rows and Columns whereas Lists allow only for Row-based suppression. While Column-based suppression can be achieved in a List by using render variables, this is very time consuming when multiple Col...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resubmit functionality is not available for report in 10.2 format

Resubmit functionality allows user after entering parameters and executing report navigate back to parameters page with all parameters values entered before the run. This feature is available only when option 'Run with full interactivity' is set t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error Logs to be 'user preference' independant

In the COGSERVER.log and AUDIT database entries, we see that errors are logged in German if the user has selected German language in his preferences. While you expect the user interface to show in preferred language, the server logs are expected i...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cross-tab prompts in a multi-tab Business Analytics Dashboard.

Ability to have a prompt that will control behavior of objects on different tabs of the same Dashboard. Similar to channel communication functionality in Cognos BI portlets.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Notifications on Report Views

The Notify Me feature is currently allowed in C11 R13 only for report executables. However, in C10 we could allow the users to create their own notifications on report views. This was a very popular feature for slower reports with many views. Plea...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration