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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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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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Add sortable dispatcher info to BI Admin Console job views (Current and Past)

Add dispatcher as a column to Current and Past Activities view. Add dispatcher to charts in Current and Past Activities
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for TIDAL Cognos Integration

Currently there is no support from IBM on intgrating Cognos with "Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler". This request is for Cognos to initiate support for TIDEL. Also comeup with guidelines/best Practices for Tidal-Cognos Integration.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add random delay to triggered schedules - avoid report storm when triggered

Our ETL process issues triggers that are used for scheduling reports and events. What is happening, is that more and more objects are monitoring these triggers to fire processes such as reports and events. The trouble is that we are starting to ha...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow System Administrator to have a custom folder(s)

As a follow up to the following, we are requesting a modification to allow system administrators to have a custom folder on the navigation bar. PI79148: CUSTOM FOLDER FEATURE DOESN'T WORK FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR(http://www-01.ibm.com/support/do...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Orientation / Portrait : possibility to dynamically change without duplicating report pages

Today when we want to allow the user to launch the report either in portrait or landscape, we need to create our own prompt and to duplicate report pages in Report Studio to apply 2 different PDF PAGE Setup on each of our 2 report pages.Would it b...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration