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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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Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Log Viewer - bring it back!

As many were use to using in prior versions of Cognos -- LogViewer was a great program. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines some file was updated and it got hosed in C11 -- and now is not even shipped with the product. Customers/Clients/Admin...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill through from Report to Dashboard

It would be good if we could drill through from a report to a Dashboard. If people from the business are seeing an exception, on a predefined report, that needs further analyses they should be able to pass prompts trough to a dashboard where they ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add HADR support for DB2 Content Stores with Cognos Analytics

Customers have HADR DB2 Solutions which they want to use with other IBM Applications for example IBM Cognos Analytics - currently Cognos does not support the HADR functionality.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration