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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:


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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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 graphical animation indicator for Suspend icon

When Suspending a report there is no graphical animation indication that states if it is working/processing, etc. There should be some indicator implemented for user friendliness.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make life with data selections easier. For instance with Max Day. Or Rolling 50 days or....

Worked together with TD to use a data module to create calculations to find latest item and filter on that. No need for updating the data manually anymore. Creating a daily updated snapshot of that data can speed up querying. Still running-periods...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When sending PDFs by mail, dynamic setting of the mail header and attached filename

When sending PDFs or XLS by mail, a datetimestamp, parameter or burstgroupvalue would be preferred to be included in the file name and in the header of the mail
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Label in correct order

In a particular chart label are show in reverse order respect to the data
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Burst list title in header in Cognos reports

[PH03629] Bursting in pdf report - pdf burst items missing pages and outside written area
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

report view to store properties like filters, groupings, summaries set from activity menu

This would make it easier to share and communicate results/analysis from reports instead of creating a totally new report.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Improve filters for numeric attributes

It is not even the functionalities available for a numeric attribute than there is for the alphanumeric attributes. For the numeric ones, it only gives the option to 'Define a range' or 'Select individual items', but for the alphanumeric ones it a...
almost 4 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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

resource consumption auditing

my management team is asking for a report of the reports /dashboards within cognos that are consuming the most cpu resource. management wants to understand why we need to maintain the cpu allocation that we currently have for cognos. In order to p...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration