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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Report- Default sorting for date fields

Today, in report, users have to click on the ascending or descending sort option to sort the date field values.
almost 4 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

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
almost 4 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

Workspace doesn't show -0.

Currently when I set the format to "#,##0;-#,##0", it doesn't show -0 in the Cube view/Workspace even if I enter Negative number like -0.33. I would like it to show -0.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide shared set features under more options in reporting

There are some features that are supported only for dimentional data and when we are supproting only Relational model these features are obsolete and could trigger unnecessary confusion to the user. We would like to see the options to customize an...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

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
almost 6 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.
almost 6 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...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration