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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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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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Cognos 11 - Changing The Default Pinned Toolbox Items

By default in Cognos Analytics 11, in the "reporting" (report studio) tool there are 6 default pinned toolbox items. So, when you click the "+" sign, you see list, crosstab, chart, etc. I know you can change your pinned items at a user level, but ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Burst list title in header in Cognos reports

[PH03629] Bursting in pdf report - pdf burst items missing pages and outside written area
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve filters for numeric attributes

It is not even the functionalities available for a numeric attribute than there is for the alphanumeric attributes. For the numeric ones, it only gives the option to 'Define a range' or 'Select individual items', but for the alphanumeric ones it a...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make life with data selections easier. For instance with Max Day. Or Rolling 50 days or....

Worked together with TD to use a data module to create calculations to find latest item and filter on that. No need for updating the data manually anymore. Creating a daily updated snapshot of that data can speed up querying. Still running-periods...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When sending PDFs by mail, dynamic setting of the mail header and attached filename

When sending PDFs or XLS by mail, a datetimestamp, parameter or burstgroupvalue would be preferred to be included in the file name and in the header of the mail
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

resource consumption auditing

my management team is asking for a report of the reports /dashboards within cognos that are consuming the most cpu resource. management wants to understand why we need to maintain the cpu allocation that we currently have for cognos. In order to p...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Rocky Linux as Supported Operating System

Rocky Linux has been selected by our company as the standard operating system for all applications. As a SaaS provider standardization across the organization has a tremendous impact on our ability to service and would produce cost savings. Rocky ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration