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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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  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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Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Change size of the label KPI

We want to have the ability to change the label size in a KPI.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add dashboard und datamodule to folder und package functions for permission control

There is no option to specify functionpermissions for packages and folders regarding dashboards and the datamodule. The attached screenshot shows the possible options. Moreover the screenshot shows that the options are displayed using the old IU e...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Options for Trend/Baselines to Rave 2 Visualizations

Cognos Charts have multiple options for adding trend/baselines/target lines to Visualizations. The new Visualizations do not have this feature.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Convert From Dashboard To Report

Would like the ability to take an existing "Dashboard" and convert it to a "Report".
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office)

Currently, the IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office) continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll) for authentication. For certain OIDC SSO setups, the use of Trident is causing incompatibility issues (such as Trident/IE being unable to handle ad...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration