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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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239 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release
260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Add all leaves to advance synchronization options

Add all leaves as an option for when you have a hierarchy that consists of more level and you still want it to show all leaves
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted
206 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists