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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.

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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Dashboard - ability to ADD a filter that the user cannot change

Assume I have a Bar Chart that includes a YEAR filter for 2 years of Data. At run time a User can Delete that FILTER and change what I want as permanent FILTER for that WIDGET.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Jupyter Notebook Read Data from package with prompt parameters

We are looking to read data from a package that contains query subjects with required prompt parameters due to potential data volume returned from source database. We are not currently able to read these data sources into a pandas dataframe in our...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Event Studio to support emailing multiple report outputs for same recipient separately

Our requirement is to email a bursted report to business users and to have the subject line indicate the policy# and a few other pieces of information. Once the report is bursted, one ore more report outputs will be created for the same recipient....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to convert Views and Tables in Data Modules into the Data Set.

If you have been building a Data Module and notice that Data Sets are required to improve the product performance it is very cumbersome to start building the Data Set using the Data Set editor and then replacing the Tables and Views in Data Module...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

JMeter Stability Package for Cognos Analytics

The 10.2.1 JMeter Stability Package does not run on Cognos Analytics. So an updated Version should be released.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Maintenance: Bulk Delete Reports

System: Cognos AdministrationActor: New maintenance featureRequire a bulk delete/move task to move/remove thousands or reports. Description: We need to have an easy way to identify and delete thousands of obsolete reports.These reports exist in a ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Hide 'My Content' in 'Save as' fields

CA11.0.7 on Windows 2012We need the Functionality that 'My Content' will be not visible by the Customer, it should be in Control of one Role/Group. For hiding the 'My Content' Folder in Navigation Bar we have a Solution, but for hiding the 'My Con...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Variables on visualizations as amount/length

Adding a variable to a chart amount/length field and make it available to select between them with a filter option. It would look similar than the "Navigation Path". Instead of attributes we can add measure fields here. Each new group of measures ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration