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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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Add prefix or postfix to the report name upon saving the report.

We have a request from user. When the user enters a name to save the report in Cognos Analytics, is it possible to have an option to add some text (such as FOUO) to the report name either before or after what they enter?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Excel options in cognos viewer

Veiw in excel options shows as excel 2007,but if cognos supports 2010 version also. why can't it be independent of version likeView in Excel Data OnlyView in Excel
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Possibility to export it to Excel

I think it can be very useful to have the possibility of a direct export to excel format (or other "standard" formats) of data modules, without necessarily having to create a report or a dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Line between two different points on a Map visualization

Our client is looking to add the capability to see lines between one Latitude and another as well as one Longitude and another. Currently, we only have the option to add one Latitude and one Longitude. A great use case for this is for understand a...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cache parameterized queries if default values set

Refresh Report Output: When scheduling a report via Job, if we select ‘refresh the report cache', it only refreshes prompt page of the report. How could we refresh report output if data latency is acceptable?
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search Schedule by Name in Cognos Administration Portal

Currently I have option to filter schedules but if I need to search a schedule by its name, I have to visit each page and look at it and its time consuming as well as there are chances or error and I might overlook it. I have faced this problem nu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Legend

The legend position for the chart (pls refer legendpositionvertical pic), the legend is horizontal, we used to see in vertical in 11.0.6. Is there any way we can render it to vertical position on right side.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LCM times out or crashes after unspecified amount of time

my team has noticied with 11.07 LCM install and 11.0.10 that after an undetermined amount of time that the LCM component will time out or crash this needing to have its service restarted. Ticket: TS000999719 was opened for this for review.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration