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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,

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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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Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In depth Matching algorithm tuning should be performed in the UI, and not requiring a third party application like Postman or Insomnia

In the current state, we cannot tune the algorithm to the needs of CTC's customer context without having a technical counterpart who can access the JSON object. In a target state (ideal), we would be able to change the 1) source level threshold 2)...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 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...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

The incremental Import option is not available for GCP BigQuery connection for MDI

We need incremental import option for GCP Big Query connection for MDI's.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

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).
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

User Access Management

Over time we had many users and many of them become idle, left IBM or got another role. Keeping these users generates risk. We want to remove these users and I couldn't remove them all by one step. I had to do it one by one and it took a lot of ti...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration