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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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ALL Mail recipients in (Job) schedules visible at first sight

When creating a schedule, the user has the possibility to use main mail recipient, cc recipient, and bcc recipient. When manipulating a schedule later, ALL defined recipient types (main, cc, bcc) should show up at first sight, without necessity to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADD IMS AS POSSIBLE DATASOURCE IN COGNOS ANALYTICS

The IMS data source has been removed from Cognos Analytics since version 11.0.6This database is however an IBM product while the IDMS database (Computer Associates and now Broadcom) is still available in 11.1.5 for example. We have the need in our...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Alphabetical order of signons, when report is started

When a report is run, where more than one signon is used, they signons are not ordered alphabetically (see screenshot). Signons should always be ordered alphabetically.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query items in package should be ordered alphabetically depending on the content language

In Frameworkmanager, the query items can be ordered alphabetically with two options (A-Z or Z-A, see screenshot #1).But when using more than one language in frameworkmanager and changing the language, the sortorder stays the same, only the query i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

namespace

Add support for namespace in datamodules
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to do Filter for Report without fetching a list of values

When querying from a package in Query Studio the prompt option can be configured in Framework Manager to be an edit box, which prevents millions of values to be retrieved from the database for detail query items. In Report, the Filter for Report o...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to go ‘Down a level' in Workspace Advanced

Looking for an option to go ‘down a level' in Workspace Advanced similar to what is available in Analysis studio. For example to get all children of 2014, I shouldn't have to click each quarter and expand to get the months. If there was a dimens...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration