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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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  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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Restrict Users From Using Cognos Groups And Roles As Email Recipients

Currently, any user can setup a Cognos report, subscription, or schedule to email any Cognos group or role. This means any Cognos group or role can be used as an email DL. For Cognos Admins and Focals, this is a very nice feature. However, end use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

MapBox map extensions for report creating

There is no possibility to change MapBox options like:- set the Colour scale / point scale- change the Map presentation- create different layers for the regional analysis- change the point symbol These options are required for a better Map Intelli...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 6 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

Add an option allowing to clear recent list

We need an option that help us to clear all recents lists for users. Why : Because some times we need to update ou report shortcuts and users are still accessing the old ones. We've also experienced that installing new versions over existing cont...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add User Name to XML File For External File Delivery

A Cognos User wants to utilize the external file delivery method in order to deliver reports to their OneDrive account. However, the accompanying XML file that is created along with the report output does not contain that user's name, and therefor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration