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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,

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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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Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable to embed microcharts in tables (lists) in dashboard module

In Report Module you can add (legacy) microcharts in a list. I would like to have this also available in the dashboard module: adding a microchart to a table widget (list).
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Provide datasource name as a package property

Provide the ability for a user to view the package datasource name from the package properties within Team / Group Content.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio capabilty to rerun a failed report automatically

We have a daily event that runs a job containing many reports. This event is kicked out by a trigger. There are sporadic instances when the job runs and one report may fail. It would be nice to have a 'task' that could rerun a failed report in a job.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Comprehensive Auditing #mea #emea

Give more thorough Auditing Capabilities instead of using Audit Extension or third part tool like Motio or BSP Software.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Show error page when Cognos Analytics service is down and user try to access the gateway URI.

In Cognos Analytics 11, when Cognos Analytics service is down and if you are accessing from gateway URI, then your user will see "this page isn't working" from chrome or white screen for IE or Firefox. When seeing the white screen in IE and Firefo...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted