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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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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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Upload PDF to Team content

We have latest versions of word documentation uploaded on Cognos in some folder. For example Cognos tutorials, data warehouse, data marts descriptions etc. Users have these documents immediately available. But we want users to have PDFs instead of...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Creation of the cache need to be a step of the running objects

The creation of the cache is a separate step for the objects that require a prompt to be executed, this new step use a slot of the background process. That means that all the "number" of the current and past activities are not correct, every repor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Webpage Widget to Embed Report - Run Report Full Screen Option

When using the webpage widget within the dashboard to embed a report on the dashboard, the report is not full screen (shows the cognos menu bars). It would be nice to maximize the report size by running full screen. An option in the widget propert...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update AI/Smarts independent of platform upgrade.

A way to train/update the CA AI model with the latest smarts independent from a platform upgrade would be very useful. Our AI user base wants the newer AI enhancements, but we aren't able to continuously upgrade CA every time a new version comes o...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

To add an SFTP configuration so that we can push output files on different shared folders

Mainly we need to push the result sheet for any COGNOS report on separate folder for each user not only one shared path . As of now and as you suggested the folder configuration is being done on server level and all the reports will use the same f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Filterbar Enhancement

When I embed a dashboard onto an intranet site using an iframe there appears to be no way to have the filterbar collapsed by default. I can hide the navbar and appbar but not set the filterbar to be hidden or at least collapsed by default. Adding ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

OptimeYes

This brings to your notice that Cognos analytics does support numbers of database instead of IBM InfoSphere Optim Archive as JDBC data source type because there is no driver available in Cognos analytics about Optim Archive. Could anyone suggest u...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable viewing subsets for selected Planning Analytics dimensions

Having many subsets in Planning Analytics dimensions is very heavy for Cognos Analytics when loading the package. We would like to chose if CA have to load subsets for a dimension in a cube or not: for some dimensions is very helpful to see all su...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration