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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,

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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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Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Need ability to rename data modules and update links

We would like the ability to rename data modules in CA. We have the ability to swap out the modules, but cannot edit the name.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability on Schedule Management screen to sort running items by NAME

Add the ability to sort running items by NAME in the CA Schedule Management screen.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide the Advanced Drill Functionaility in the Interactive Viewer

By default the interactive viewer allows users to drill up and drill down on any projected items. Please provide the ability to restrict the drill up and drill down entirely and on an individual Query Item basis. This functionality used to be avai...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Reporting: Copy from report output

When viewing report output in the interactive viewer, I can select items from the output and use the copy tool on the floating toolbar to copy one or more values to the clipboard. The copy feature is not available if I have selected a summary item...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

CA11 copying of settings for schedules

The customer want to have the possibility to takeover and afterwards if required adapt the schedule setting for other report.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

All personal settings (incl. tile/list view setting welcomepage) should be stored in Content Store

In the recent section within the welcome page I personally like the list view more than the tile view. In some environments users experience problems since these personal settings return to it's original default state (the tile view) after restart...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration