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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

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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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Dynamically change page view in reporting

Currently in Cognos Analytics, when I change the Start page view in Reporting, I need to save the report, exist, and re-open to see the new page view. I understand it's called 'start page view', however it'd be great if this updated on the fly rat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name of Query

Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Additional graph options for matrix graphs (repeating columns/rows)

When repeating on rows or columns there should be an option to have the axis labels appear only for the first instance. Repeating using a measure group should give us an option to have each value axis have it's own scale and formatting options. In...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Reportpath() function to construct url in Cognos Analytics

Reportpath() function returns the path of the report as /content/folder[@name=""]/report[@name=""] and this was used to construct report url dynamically in C10.2.2. but this path cannot be used to construct url in cognos analytics as the url const...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Provide a workaround to not use /tmp on Linux/Unix with EXEC permission

To avoid bug referenced PH08176 CANNOT UPLOAD CSV OR XLS WHEN /TMP IS MOUNTED AS NON-EXEC the /tmp directory must have EXEC permission (Linux/Unix)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Change the default width of the navigation tab

It is not possible to change the default width of the navigation bar. We can resize it manually, but the configuration is lost once logged off.+ settings of My content and Team content are independants
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restore IIS gateway dispatcher redundancy functionality to behave like previous cognos versions

In cognos 11 the iis gateway requires the use of url rewrites to create a reverse proxy to work. This hard codes a single dispatcher per IIS gateway. The workaround suggested by support would require a dedicated IIS instance per dispatcher and loa...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Give to portal pages from C10 same settings as My folder & Public folders

Since CA 11.0.11 you can enable Portal Pages from BI 10.x https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/portal-pages-in-cognos-analytics-r11/But "My portal pages" does not appear in perspective as "My content" and "Team content",...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration