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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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Reduced spacing between the values in a prompt

Currently there is a lot of spacing between prompt values when using any report style of version 11 (besides 11.x). This does not provide a good overview of the values in the prompt, the users have to scroll a lot to find the value that they want ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a "callout" type text box to point a textual comment

Added a "callout" type text box that would make it easier to point a textual comment to a specific report element (e.g. bar in a graph, row or column in a cell)
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Query Studio Compatibility for Microsoft Edge

Since Internet Explorer will be sunset soon, my client has decided MS Edge will be the 'standard' for our user base. Currently we have approximately 300 Query Studio users that can successfully use Query Studio with Edge, but only if Internet Expl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 3 Not under consideration

Make a package default for all reports in cognos 11.09

Set a package to be default package for all the new reports for Cognos 11.09.Currently there is no option that can set a particular package to be default package for all the new reports in Cognos 11.In Cognos 11 Users always have to add package ma...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Access to Directory Search of Cognos Namespace

User chooses to run report in the background and selects email delivery option. The report author can then email a report with sensitive data to an entire Cognos namespace group like Consumers. Current work around forces us to shut off Report Sche...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration