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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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Remove report name prefix from burst output name

We have as requirement send a PDF report via email from Cognos, with a specific custom name. We have already the custom name save into burst field but we would like to remove the report name prefix of the PDF file name generated. Because from Even...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard

Cognos Analytics - Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard. In Report, When values in chart get over 5 digits, they become to small and hard to see. Especially in Pie Chart. The size of the chart also shrinks when changing "La...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

formatted ReportPath() fonction in Dashboard and Report Studio

Obtain a readable path of a Report or Dashboard, for example Public Folder > path1 > path2 > path3 etc... instead of the historic bad /content/folder[@name='path1']/folder[@name='path2']/folder[@name='path3']/folder[@name=etc...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make it easier when using of Report Variables

In cognos 10, when you were conditionally formatting an object across multiple values -- it was relatively easy to turn on the functionality for each value -- and it was relatively easy to turn it off or revert to the Default/Other value (by doubl...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module created from Data Server with multiple alike schema should be able to use any

it should be possible to use any schema that are alike depending on the connection. For exemple if my developpement schema is called DEV and my production schema is called PROD, I am not able to use a datamodule made with DEV for production. Same ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Searchable Tree Prompt

Either extend existing Tree Prompt or add a new insertable object that allows for text searching of elements in a tree prompt.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In "My schedules and subscriptions," display the current enable/disable status as selected by the user

In My schedules and subscriptions, if you enable/disable the schedule from ... (More), and then Properties or Modify Schedule, the status does not update in the list of schedules/subscriptions. However, when you click ... (More) and then Enable/Di...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Accounting Format for currency values

Like the Currency format, the Accounting format is used for monetary values. But, this format aligns the currency symbols and decimal points of numbers in a column. In addition, the Accounting format displays zeros as dashes and negative numbers i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release