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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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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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Extension Items languaje localization

It would be very useful to gain the option to localize the names of the extesions items, such of dashbords/reports/.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Extended Agent Audit Reports

Cognos Analytics currently only ships with a narrow set of Audit Reports in regard to Agent Execution. It is not possible to get an easy overview of Runtimes for Agents and their Payload. The Sample Package also does not cover the correct connecti...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate Housekeeping for \temp and \data

Currently it is awkward to clean up \temp and \data. Only the product knows which files are in actual use.If you had process crashes during report executions and or of the product itself temporary files might not be properly removed during a resta...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Reporting: Resizable find window

The "Find" window in Authoring (Reporting) where one can search in the report itself cannot be resized. Especially when having long query and/or data item names and many search results this impedes the work process to find a specific result and ex...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget in Cognos reporting

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide / UnHide Columns after generated report

Provide the options for setting Columns to Hide / UnHide after a report is generated. The Saved custom view can be updated.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reset prompts and run option should clear the prior selected prompts or do not use the word 'Reset'.

Currently, the 'Reset prompts and run' option only takes you back to the prompt page. It does not clear the prior selected prompt choices. The word 'Reset' is misleading. User believe it should clear the prior selected prompts. Make this option cl...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Ability to provide a tenant specific deployment-folder

As an tenant administrator I would like to export or import content from Cognos analytics. You can assign a export/import-definition to a specific tenant. The ZIP-files with content will end up in the deployment folder. There is just one deploymen...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration