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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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Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow Cognos to be automatically redirected on session timeout

According to this IBM Technote (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22011410) there is currently no way to redirect to an external product's logon screen. This causes undesirable behavior when linking Cognos to our SSO page. We are ab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable to embed microcharts in tables (lists) in dashboard module

In Report Module you can add (legacy) microcharts in a list. I would like to have this also available in the dashboard module: adding a microchart to a table widget (list).
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Connection between widget and filter area filters

I would like to specify connection between each filter and each widget. Currently you can't define what widget work with which filter (from filter area). Its all or nothing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update references for derived query items when changing the query operation/reference

For advanced reports it is essential to operate with derived queries. Such queries are using a query operation (like join, union etc.) or a query reference as the data source. You often get to the point where you need to make changes to your deriv...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration