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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


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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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MISSING SEARCH OPTION ON FILTER CONDITION DIALOG

Missing search option on filter condition dialog when creating custom filter for date code and year of year code. This feature was present in previous versions, so please add it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedule a report without Write capabilities

Is it possible to allow for users to schedule a report, even if Write access has not been specified to the reports in a folder - as the ability to schedule a report is important, but to also have security enabled so that a user cannot make any cha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk modification of properties of report and objects

hello, I often find myself having to edit the properties of reports and have to open them one by one. So I was thinking as an improvement to the options on the portal (also to be added as an option on the folder that contains the objects ) that it...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

No Run Later when running a job as is previous versions

See Case (TS000143599) DescriptionMorning, In 10.1.1 our users to run a job and have an option to run Later as a one off selection. In Analytics they seem to be able to Run now or to schedule (which they don't want to do). Have we lost the option ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option as system administrator to reset the user default home to default one (set globally)

We would like to have option as system administrator to see the user home page and being able to reset it to default. Default in our case is home page set on global level by administrator via manage > customization > views > home page (or...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Last Modified By: on Properties Page

Customer requesting to see 'Last Modified By:' on the Properties page for reports and packages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possible to empty datamodul cache using macro against database table

Cache is great for performance, but this need to manage if souces are updated during the day. In dynamic cube we are able refresh based on schedule or ETL with use of DCADMIN. Today is it possible to set expiry time with use of Macro in datamodul....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add custom sub-levels via extensions

We want to limit the folder access to the clients by customizing the left side navigation bar and adding custom menus. Because of the folder structure and the topics, the best would be if we could add sub-menus. However we can't use the following ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration