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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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scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give support

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give full support for it in Workspace. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-reporting-scripting_techniques-page644/
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Session Time out Pop up

We need timeout popup as a warning message that session is about to expire. This will help users in saving time and avoid losing any unsaved changes.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable Notifications for Views

Users currently use watchlists to be notified when new report output is available. Watchlists are no longer and have been replaced with Notifications. Notifications do not work with Report Views. We did some testing in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 and ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Mobile Friendly Responsive UI in Cognos when viewing from mobile devices not just dashboard

When accessing Cognos from Android browser, UI need to be responsive and mobile friendly option/menu to have fluid experience
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration