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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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  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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Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

My parameters feature - improved security evaluation

Hello, we are using the My parameters feature in cognos where from one place we can share the prompt selection cross many reports as default option. We have a lot of security in our system including data source/package levels. When using my parame...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CA 11.2 all quick launch hide to be turned off/on

Currently you can hide the quick launch in the portal, when you log back in the quick launch is no longer hidden. Would like have stay hidden until I choose to unhide it.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

display currently opened objects next to each other in 11.2.0

Now all currently opened objects are displayed one below the other. Is would be useful, to display them one next to each other, at least the latest of them. The benefit would be, that they could be reached then within 1 click.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CA 11.2 Being able to reduce the Content header to show more data

In Cognos 11.2 when users change to the Content view, they complain that the header part uses too much space leaving only about half the screen for the data, if there are more than 5 objects, it is necessary to scroll down looking for those not sh...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties Some query items are not in the map visualization for the drill through. The user wants to set define properties like in a list, so he can drill through on query subjects that are not in the map
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

to have all cookies in cognos analytics support HTTPOnly attribute

Hi, Due to recent tighter security requirement, we would like to have all the cookies used in cognos analytic to support HTTPOnly attribute. Currently not all cookies support it thanks
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration