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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


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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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Support mobile browser: Chrome and Firefox for Android, iOS

When I open IBM Cognos Analytics from Chrome on Android, the Manage tab is missing. IBM services helpdesk informed me that IBM Cognos Analytics currently only support Safari on iPad. Can mobile browser (Chrome, Firefox) be supported on Android and...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Improve the speed for Excel import in Cognos For MS Office

To display in MS Excel, some list reports ran in Excel format take four to five time longer than ran in Excel data.We know that import format is not the same (CSV Vs. LDX) but it would be great if the speed could be improved
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Analysis, Workspace etc. directly from the package

Currently, we are able to see only Report and Dashboard creation options, in the 'More' options of the package. It will be convenient if we can open all other studios, like Event, Analysis, Workspace, etc., directly from the package itself.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Resizable windows Drill-through Definition in Report Studio

As a report developer I often need to open existing drill-through definitions, explore and edit parameter mapping. When report contains more than 9 parameters (the most of my enterprise customer reports), I have to scroll down / up for display all...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to add Excel 2013 as an output type in Run Report Options

When running a report, we currently have Excel 2007,Excel 2007 (data), Excel 2002 as report output formats.Customer is expecting a new format: Excel 2013 to be added to these report output types. note: I have raised this request on behalf of custo...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Where can I find audit trail of actions performed on a Dynamic Cube. STOP/START/REFRESH etc. PMR 04729,7TD,000

Where can I find audit trail of actions performed on a Dynamic Cube. STOP/START/REFRESH etc. PMR 04729,7TD,000
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - add a tool to easily export Customizations / Role Profile Priorities

Provide a tool, that lists all Customizations and Priorities applied to Roles. The tool should start to list all Customizations that deviate from the Default values per Role.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to limit report output options

We have sensitive report content that we don't want the user to have the ability email/export/save. Only view in Cognos Connection
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists