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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Data driven text visualization

On dashboards there is often a need to annotate or comment on the data being displayed. For example, I may wish to indicate in a comment what percentage of my employees meet a certain criteria. This could be accomplished with a hard-coded string i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditing capabilities to include changes in access permissions

The current Audit logging does not include changes to access permissions on Cognos objects. We would like changes to access permission on Cognos objects to be included in the Audit logging. The information should include who (what user) changed wh...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Themes should be ordered alphabetically, when creating a new report

When creating a new report, a template and a theme can be chosen. The templates are ordered alphabetically, but the themes not. The themes should be ordered alphabetically, too.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to rename objects on copy

We would like to have back option from C10 to rename object when doing "copy or move" action.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

disable email notification during cognos startup

"disable email notification during cognos startup"Currently, there is no proper way to switch off this functionality.I believe that this functionality would not be use friendly if there is no proper way to switch off or change the email recipient.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration