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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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Fix Output Version sort issue

We have burst output being saved, but when viewing the saved output versions of the reports often they are not sorted as specified by our burst key. When running the job that bursts the reports, the report output versions are being generated in or...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

11.1 visualization like stacked column charts needs format enhancements

For pixel perfect reporting visualizations needs to give a compliant look on a report page (PDF or HTML) in specific if multiple visualizations are used on the same page. The current options for formatting the visualizations are still too few. In ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add attachment file name to the schedule report "View run history" status screen

Please add the attachment report name to the schedule report's "View run history" screen so that Admins can see what report was attached to the scheduled report and was distributed.Also, if the attachment is different then the actual report name, ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rich text content not available in reports

The long description fields in the ICD can contain formatted content („rich text content“).This content cannot be reported with Cognos.The appropriate cognos tool for this kind of data would be the Rich Text element but these elements support ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory restrict full search

Users can use search on AD namespace and be able to see all other users from other OUs.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Burst functionality is not available for reports with Crosstab & Charts

Our reports have only Crosstab and charts, adding a list does not help. Please let us know if we can burst the report with only crosstab & charts
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a standard disclaimer(Notes) to outgoing cognos 11 reports

How to add a standard disclaimer to outgoing cognos 11.06 reports.When user selects DELEVERY OPTION: E-MAIL REPORTwe would like user to get e-mailed report with standard disclaimer (notice or warning which is added to an outgoing email)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube Designer: Select standard folder for cubes

It would be useful to select a standard folder for the publishing of the cube-packages. The standard folder should be set for every dynamic cube.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration