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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

  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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connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add/Extend CA REST API endpoint to retrieve groups/roles/capabilities for a specified user

In the current state, there is no endpoint within the Cognos REST API that allows an administrator to query another user's groups/roles/capabilities. Having this available would be extremely useful as we will have the ability to speed up our suppo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 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

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted