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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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View report status when Scheduling capability turned off

Client has scheduling capability disabled for dev environment, but users testing reports need to see what reports they are running in the background and the status of those runs.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run reports into sharepoint location

Add option to export report outputs directly into sharepoint as target location so that users/teams can directly consume the reports from there.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Recent Data Sources for Reports and Dashboards

We miss the functionality of seeing recently used data sources when starting the creation of a new dashboard or report. The user will always need to navigate to the proper location and select the data source. This functionality was available in Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Cognos integration with Spark

Support Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Analysis Studio and Query Studio to continue support Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome

Refer to Banking customer in Thailand who has been using Analysis Studio to analyse for 60 deposit mortgage rates for package data that using via browse more than 100 reports to ensure that all important business activities in the bank. Currently ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce two factor (2F) authentication

IBM/Cognos doesn't currently connect to Salesforce when using two factor (2F) authentication. Support checked with development folks and unfortunately at this moment CA is unable to handle any 2F authentication - be it portal access or in datasour...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable/enable application/navigation bar in cognos portal

We would like to have an option to enable/disable the cognos analytics navigation/application bards in the interface. For example by adding the check box option for navigation bar & application bar lines in manage > accounts > cognos rol...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Combining report views with "Report reference" page doesn't provide correct results

(Concerns Report studio page explorer) I am contacting you as we are facing issues when combining report views. We are using the new 10.2.1 functionnality that allows to reference report views in a report to combine them in the execution to have o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clear all selected conditions at once

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment, there is the way to clear the selected conditions one by one. We want you to add a function to cancel all conditions at once by the filter icon displayed in the upper right of the visualization.In Cognos Analy...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration