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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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Last year, Prev Year in Dynamic Cubes

Hi, Can you please add the functinalitiy from Transfomer to create automatically Last Year, prev year month etc.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 - Scheduled Jobs access issue

ISSUE: Jobs in a secured "scheduled jobs" folder are set to have READ only access. In our validation of the 11.0.7, it was observed that the run option is provided to users with read access to this folder. This allows the user to trigger jobs to run.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

custom Story templates

Currently, we must copy/paste a pre-built Story each time a user wants to develop a Story using the company's standard presentation template. A customized, globally accessible Story template as well as custom slide templates (e.g.: title page, con...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Virtual Cube Aggregation pushed to Base Cube

When performing a distinct count in the virtual cubes in the where a filter is applied the distinct count results are performed for the members used in the filter and then aggregated using a sum, rather than filtering the data then performing the ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pins library is not available in reporting

Pin library is needed to use other Cognos tools when prepping the report, for example - how to copy exploration visualization to report?
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automation of 'Update File' functionality

It would be great if you could create a job that auto updates a file I have in Cognos 11.0.5
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upload/Append Schedule for a file

We have users that have receive upload files everyday and we would like to be able to Update or append to file using scheduling.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Restart Time need to be reduced

Transactional Environment where Cognos integrated with Application have very less downtime. Cognos Analytics takes 10-13 mins for each dispatcher to restart.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

“Cascading Prompt“ Functionality in “My Parameters”

In Recent release of Cognos Analytics R7, New Function called "My Parameters". There is no "Cascading Prompt” in "My Parameters”, Will It be possible for "Cascading Prompt" in "My Parameters”? The Prompts in "My Parameters" are independent, ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration