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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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Ability to audit all customizations made for Cognos Analytics roles

We have taken advantage of the customization options provided in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, but we are finding it is difficult to see what customizations are applied in our environment at a high level. We are keeping a spreadsheet of the customizati...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default Location for Report Views should not be root of Team Content

Interactive reports only: when user selects to save a rendered report output as a View, the Save As dialog always defaults to the root of Team Content. It would be more intuitive if the default destination for the report view would match the locat...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aility to Connect to SharePoint 2013 and Social Media Sites

Business has had the need to connect their CA deployment to a broader range of disparate data sources, including SharePoint 2013 list objects and also corporate social media sites such as facebook and twitter.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Query optimization option for SQL statement would need to add the LOCKING ROW FOR ACCESS.

We need an enhancement request submitted in Aha to get query optimization options like Prefixes that go before the "Select" keyword, i.e. to enable "locking row for access"
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Reorg a data partitioned table with non partitioned indexes online

Currently a data partitioned table with non partitioned indexes can not be reorged online, even the latest V11.1.2.2 can not do this.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicks in viz should filter global filter in dashboards

When we click on a viz inside a dashboard it, by default, filters the other widget in the dashboard. It does not filter the data added in the filter pane which is also part of the dashboard.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bilingual filters works in Report but not working in Dashboard

When I create a bilingual Dashboard, the default language is English, the filters are in English. But If I change the language in “My Preference” to French, the filters are not selected (not switched to French).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics New Report - Default Behaviour like Analysis Studio (Cubes)

We have many business users transitioning from Analysis Studio and would like the product defaults for "Report" to be similar to that tool, especially for dimensional data sources. Currently we have to manually set:- View settings -> check “Sho...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration