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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

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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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Cognos Analytics

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Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide documentation on upgrade best practices

It would be very helpful to know IBMs best practice recommendations with upgrades to Cognos Analytics. Here's an example why... With quarterly releases we have been looking for ways to streamline our upgrade process and wondered if republishing th...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rollup functions in Visualizations & Active Reports

The current visualization engine limits rollup methods for chart measures to Total, Minimum, Maximum and Average. This is great for multiple filter options on additive measures; but really does not support calculated measures (i.e. Margin %, Cost ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced/relative date filter

Add on a dashboard and report prompt the ability to filter for a date or date range using the following: today, yesterday, this week/month/year, last x days/week/month/year, fiscal filtering. This type of control or functionality is a staple of ma...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Improve Hide Summaries property for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards

In a lot of real cases we want to display some attributes but need an overall summary for the key figures. Between version 10.0.10 and 11.1.1 the property "hide summaries" has been introduced for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards. It allows to sw...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to modify the top filter bar and font and name in widgets

From our Cognos user feedbacks: we would like to move the top filter bar to the right side of page, plus change the size of filter bar(took to much space on the page). We also need to modify the column name or fonts in each widget. Since the model...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard View like Reportviews

Our users are moving the Dashboards to my content with there name selected for filter, but if we do any changes to main Dashboard under Team content they are not getting those updates to My Content, looking for having similar concept as Report vie...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report Page or Dashboard Tabs as tooltips

Improves User Experience
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted