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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,

  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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Ability to create folders to organize queries in reporting

The query screen in Report Studio/Report Authoring can get difficult to manage and understand in complex multi-query reports. Having some organizational features, like the ability to create folders to contain related queries, would make this signi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Access to Directory Search of Cognos Namespace

User chooses to run report in the background and selects email delivery option. The report author can then email a report with sensitive data to an entire Cognos namespace group like Consumers. Current work around forces us to shut off Report Sche...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Peak / Non-Peak periods to be defined in hh:mm

As an administrator in cognos administration add option to define peak and non/peak periods in server (services) properties not only in hours but also in minutes like hh:mm. Hours only is a basic limitation for this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Studio Compatibility for Microsoft Edge

Since Internet Explorer will be sunset soon, my client has decided MS Edge will be the 'standard' for our user base. Currently we have approximately 300 Query Studio users that can successfully use Query Studio with Edge, but only if Internet Expl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 3 Not under consideration

dashboard conditional formatting

The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML as a datasource in 64bit

I am trying to use XML as a source for one our reports. When we moved from Cognos 10.x to 11.0.5, we get rid of all 32 bit dispatchers and made everything as 64bit only. How when I try to use the XML source, it fails since it can only work in Comp...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic email subject line and email body on burst reports in Event Studio

The Email task in Event Studio has the capability of making the subject and body dynamic so data items can be dragged to those sections. If a burst report is used instead to perform the emails , the capability does not exist to tailor the outgaini...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent groups from accessing 'Send Report by Email' delivery option

Our client deals with very sensitive data that cannot be sent over email. We would like the ability to restrict certain groups from using email as a delivery method because of this. However we would still like to avail of email for job notificatio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Groups

I hope in the future there is a out the box report that can show users in all groups. This will help with Audits.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration