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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Cognos Groups

I hope in the future there is a out the box report that can show users in all groups. This will help with Audits.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the company template as default

We have migrated to 11.0.12 recently and would like to make a template for our company and make it a standard template for all the reports. After the template creation we would like to make it selected by default for all users so they don't have t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have Sticky Filters on Dashboards

I would like to have a dashboard with defined filters where users could view the Dashboard and in view mode change the filter values and NOT have to save the Dashboard. The next time they open the Dashboard, it would have their last filter values....
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Progress bar while running a report

Oftentimes, when we are running a large report (that could take for example 10 minutes), we would like to see the progress of the loading of the report. This way, we could see if the loading got stuck, or if a report still needs only 1 minute, or ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Creating new dashboards from old reports

It would be great if we could either pin a report and be able to select it into a new dashboard. Or, have the ability to copy a report, or report object, and be able to paste into a new dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement Settings to modify limitation of Report Output versions Globally

Need to have enhancement in Cognos so that we can setup limit on number of report output versions globally rather than for each report.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic email subject line and email body on burst reports in Event Studio

The Email task in Event Studio has the capability of making the subject and body dynamic so data items can be dragged to those sections. If a burst report is used instead to perform the emails , the capability does not exist to tailor the outgaini...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New chart feature Required

We are unable to show the percentage and Total Sum in the same chart. The total should be shown on the top and the details will be shown as percentage. The percentage chart shouldn't be 100% stacked.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Custom Javascript Modules in Saved HTML Output

After converting our javascript to Custom Control and Page Modules in CA 11 we observed that our javascript modules are not loaded when users view Saved HTML report outputs.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration