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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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Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save As report View - Converted Reports Workflow

"Save As ReportView" functionality uses different workflows for Interactive vs Non Interactive reports. This is not intuitive for end users. Target: Report Studio, Admin
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Login screen showing a pre-filled value for Namespace

Hi, We are on CA R5 installed in a distributed mode on Linux with dual namespaces called "ADESI" and "ES" configured. In version 10, the namespace value on the login screen is pre-populated in the alphabetical order i.e. with ADESI first and ES la...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

.Net Core support with Cognos 11.1.7

Our .Net Application uses cognosdotnet_10_2.dll and cognosdotnetassembly_10_2.dll to communicate to Cognos . We are in the process of upgrading our .Net Application to .Net Core . We need .Net core support with Cognos 11.1.7.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Missing graphical animation indicator for Suspend icon

When Suspending a report there is no graphical animation indication that states if it is working/processing, etc. There should be some indicator implemented for user friendliness.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add configuration options for Multitenancy to Cognos Analytics UI (eg: assign tenant ID to objects)

The Cognos Analytics UI does not currently have the functionality for administering multitenancy. Customers would like to see multitenancy functionality, such as assigning a tenant ID to an object, in the new Cognos Analytics UI.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter Item Reference from model leveraged in Cognos Workspace Advanced

Do you know if there are any plans to have Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced take advantage of the Prompt Info section in Framework Manager and more specifically, the Filter Item Reference?
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration