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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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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Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CA11: Provide filtered icon + dialogs on list reports as in excel or calc

Provide CA11 list reports+editor with a well established filter icon in list column headers and smart filter dialogs respecting filter-option settings from FM modell use and display item.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configurable variable quota designated for datasets per user/group/or role

Currently the allocated size for datasets are the same for everyone. For Powerusers we need to allocate bigger size
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Security/Capability on global parameters

We would like to use global parameters as a place where users and advanced users can define and reuse parameters (especially default parameters).To be able to use global parameters in this way we need to be able to separate security/capabilities o...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove XML files after saving them in the shared location

This case has been opened to eliminate the XML files that has been creating while saving the file to an external system.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support click house data source

Case number TS010994014
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox in Report Studio

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox so it can be dragged into the Query window in order to organize/group queries
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to uninstall a version of Cognos Analytics to return to previous version

Ability to uninstall a version of Cognos Analytics to return to previous version
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration