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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

  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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Relative time reports different than dashboard

If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

auto size search and select prompt in cognos report studio

By default the search and select prompt has fixed width when used on the prompt page, there is a system setting where it expands to width of contents automatically. Unfortunately that setting never worked at all, check note belowhttp://www-01.ibm....
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Update Drill-Through Definitions Parameters Window to be more user friendly

It would be very helpful to update the Drill-Through definitions Parameters window to be more user friendly if it were possibly to do things such as changing every "Method" simultaneously to "Pass Parameter Value" or another option. Many times, es...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

More than 2 cubes in a virtuel cube

Create possiblity to include more than 2 "base" cubes in a virtuel cube,
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration