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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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Ability to pin favorite properties or set some properties on top

What new is in Cognos Analytics (compared with Cognos 10) is the ability to pin favorite items of the toolbox. It should be very powerful when this functionality is also available in the properties pane. When you are designing the page, you can ch...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Move or copy reports (including custom step options) between different jobs

Moving a report (including the custom step options) from one job to another job is too complicated. The only option to do this is to delete the report in one job and add the report in the other job. So you have to define the step options again whi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Easier way to implement name change of 'My Content' and 'Team Content'

We are migrating thousands of users from Cognos 10.2.1 to Cognos 11.1.4. For transparency we would like to keep the naming of 'My Folders' and 'Public Folders'. Currently in Cognos 11, it's 'My Content' and 'Team Content'.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt dash line

The default first two lines - header section and dash line. Remove dash line and instead replace 'All' in the second line
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit the report retention settings and hide from users

We are a hosted solution that offers Cognos to multiple clients. We want to restrict users from storing too many saved report executions due to space constraints on our hosted content store.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration