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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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Burst Report - Dynamic Email Subject

The ability for bursting via email to have a dynamic email subject. Currently able to add HTML report to email body - would be useful to add a subject line in a similar way.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to control interactive mode on list/charts/crosstabs level

Although the new interactive mode is a great enhancement it is only possible to switch it on/off on the report level. When it is activated all data containers are interactive (charts/lists/crosstabs) giving the user all capabilities available. We ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Format Negative numbers in parentheses in dashboard

We have cognos analytics 11.1.7FP2. We wanted to change the way negative numbers are displayed on a dashboard. IF there are negative numbers like -2567 we want to be able to change the format and show it as (2567) on a dashboard. It works fine in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

pass a parameter through to dashboard link/url

As a user of the CRM system, I want to view a screen for a given Customer ABCDE and click on a Cognos Dashboard URL and let the session dynamically pass the variable ABCDE into the Dashboard URL so that the Cognos Dashboard opens up already filter...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Cognos 11.1.7 Dashboard: Disable automatic grouping in tables

The automatic grouping can become confusing in the table. In addition, the text is centered horizontally in the grouping.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration