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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:


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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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Make 11.1 visualization available for active reports

Currently in CA 11.1.3 for active report you only have 11.0 visualizations available. Customer requests also 11.1 visualization to be made available for active reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add advanced setting to cancel jobs in waiting status

Would like to have an Advanced Setting that would limit how long Jobs or Scheduled reports are stuck in a "Waiting" state.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing objects path/location in Activities & My Schedules and subscriptions tabs

We are missing information about the object location/path in these two tabs in the properties grid like it used to be in C10 when selection advanced options. It is for Activities tab in Manage and for My Schedules and subscription perspective. Lik...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDX support for NOW + FORMAT functions

I’m trying to create dynamic subsets that utilize the current date. This works STRTOMEMBER(' [Date] . [ Date] . [' + '2020-05-20' + '] ') Shouldn’t this? I get an error. STRTOMEMBER(' [Date] . [ Date] . [' + Format(Now(),'yyyy-mm-dd') + '] ')
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking on Save button in reports throws error for users without save permission on report folder

Cognos throws error when user clicks on save button after interacting with report. User doesn't have access to save report in the same folder. Cognos should throw a warning message rather than error.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Slider Widget speed

Current the Slider widget is not allowing time for the screen to fully render before moving to the next element in the subset on the slider. There are the following options:1 The slider waits until the screen fully renders before commencing the st...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration