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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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Cache in memory dynamic cube data to restart dispatchers without having extended outages to load cube data

Currently our project has about 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups and using package routing. If we have to restart a dispatcher it can take a couple of hours to restart the cube. We do restart our cubes daily or weekly depending on the source ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Swap Series and Categories

Add ability to quickly swap series and categories on a visualization - similar to swap columns and rows on a crosstab.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show/Hide Last Modified Date for folders within Team Content/My Content

Need to capability to show/hide the last modifed date of folders within Team Content and My Content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration