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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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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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AI Assistant should be applied to user work flow, not just data

The AI assistant should be able to look at what a user is commonly doing within Cognos and suggest better ways of doing it. It should work with the user to set up these suggestions. Cognos is a complicated product, and users don't often use it the...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Using QR Code for login in Mobile App with SSL or SSO

Lots of our customers using SSL and SSO for Cognos Analytics On Prem. Since Cognos Version 11.2.4 they also more and more use the Mobile App for consuming Dashboards. The point is that they currently have to enter the Dispatcher URL for connecting...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Incrase in the line quantity when export file cvs on dashboard

Increse of the number rows to file CSV in the export.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Support for RDS for Db2 in Cognos Analytics

We are currently using Cognos Analytics in our on-premises system, with Db2 as the DBMS. As we are considering migrating our servers to the cloud, we would like RDS for Db2 to be supported in Cognos Analytics. (As a result of an inquiry to support...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Interactive vs Non-interactive re-run differences

When you click the run on an interactive report, not the drop down on the run you get a prompt page to re-run. If you click the drop down there is no reset prompts and run choice. When you click the run on a non-interactive report, you get a drop ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Update of SDK documentation for CA

The SDK for IBM Cognos has not been updated since 10.2.2. The current version of CA contains at least 12 new classes: ShowHintsEnumReportMetadataHistoryDetailMoserServiceBaseReportMetadataExplorationCustomizationDataSourceSchemaBaseModuleUploadedF...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fix Visualization Summaries

When hovering over the legend in a visualization, the summary item numbers are calculated COMPLETELY WRONG. For example, a line graph of the total year showing a ratio per month has all of the ratios ADDED together when hovering. This is completel...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration