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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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Load Metadata – change the default behaviour to “not selected checkbox” for the new tables

All new Tables receive by default a selected checkbox and therefore are being loaded by the next Load Metadata process, if they remain selected. If a lot of new not relevant Tables are coming, it means, that all of them should be excluded manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Scan Uploaded files for viruses and negative content during upload

Currently Cognos Analytics does not scan uploaded files for viruses or negative content
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to identify the requests from Cognos For MS Office.

We want to be able to identify the requests from Cognos For MS Office. When users refresh reports from Cognos for MS Office, it is not logged into Audit tables. We want to be able to identify the requests from Cognos for MS Office and Cognos Conne...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Web Services Calls Needed

Web Services Calls previously supported by VVM in the Cognos 10 environment are needed to support the transition to Cognos 11.0.10 These items are critical to the success of the transition and are stopping us from being able to move forward. This ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic scaling of table in dashboard

Prior to R5 the table did not expand to fill the space and there were lots of requests to change the behaviour to fill the space. However when applying a filter that only returns a few or single records the size of the table header looks ugly as i...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of Navigation paths with Framework Manager and Transfomer

Both Framework manager and Transfomer should be able to support creation Navigation paths like available within Data modules
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make Dashboard scaling "Fit To Window"

Make a dashboard fit to window, so that you don't have to scroll down but always see the whole dashboard. A dashboard is not always 100% responsive because it doesn't automatically fit the browser window. Instead there is a vertical scroll bar to...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration