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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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  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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Allow more control over prompt UI (e.g. padding)

In Cognos Analytics we have no control over the padding between the items in a value prompt. The amount of padding is excessive and limits the number of prompt values which can be displayed when the value prompt drops down. This forces the user to...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add a date between filter on scheduled jobs, events and reports to the NOT admin variant

When you want to check the scheduled jobs, events and reports and you are not an admin, you should be able to use a between date filter. Now you can select only 1 date instead of more
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add end date option in subscribe report menu

Self service reportingSubscribe report menu Currently there is no way to define an end date while subscribing a report.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Bulk replace option

Problem: After Selecting Tables from a DB. You want to format and rename some of the labels. Most DB use a _ of other prefixes. For now there is no other GUI option to select multiple items and rename or search and replace texst items like _ or ot...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better support for rendering CA Dashboarding visializations on a mobile device

Rendering of charts on mobile device in Cognos Analytics is challenging. Navigation, readability, usability are not optimized for a mobile device
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics SSO documentation redo

Fix or communicate the proper and complete configuration for Single Sign On and Image browsing in Cognos 11. Especially using the Cognosisapi.dll and what the configuration needs to be to get this to work. There's been ~2800 hits in the CogNoise w...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration