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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,

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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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Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to connection to Google Analytics and Bing Analytics

Can we have ability to connect Google Analytics or Bing Analytics with Cognos, to report numbers and amounts.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customer would like to be able to set a redirect page when session times out.

Customer set a redirect for when the users logs off Cognos. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.2.1.doc/t_customize_logoff.html%23customize_logoff?lang=en When session times-out customer woul...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide method to change the default namespace search to Starts with the exact string

Please provide a method to set the namespace search in the Administration tab. Currently the default is "Contains the exact string". This can be an issue when users search a large LDAP. To prevent unnecessary long queries against the LDAP please e...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube : In Memory Aggregation for Measures with Timestate Rollup

In Banking Sector(Credit Risk Data), most of the measures are setups with time state rollup as last period. But Dynamic Cube Analyzer fails for any measure that is set with time state rollup when I run aggregate advisor. It fails saying that those...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

'JOB' in 'My Schedules and Subscriptions' breaks into multiple line items as per the number of reports

When you run a Job, my schedule and subscription screen does split the Job and its associated reports to separate line items as per the number of associated reports, we don't have a way to tie a report to Job from Schedules and Subscription screen...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No checkboxes on prompt page

In CA11 the check box options are not available on the prompt page when we create "Context filter" and apply "Prompt on Hierarchy" in CA. In Cognos 10 there was a check box selection and the customer was able to select the check box and was able t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration