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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alter Uploaded Files

When uploading excel sheets to use, display, and manipulate for the purpose of storyboarding or dashboarding, there is no feature to change or view the attribute types once uploaded. In order to accomplish this task, you must re-upload and re-link...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for cognos bridge (IBM Cognos Content Manager)

There seems to be no cognos bridge (IBM Cognos Content Manager). *The bridge is constructed according to the following URL. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203761 Therefore, I cannot lineage BI reports. I want you to support IBM Cogn...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Current date to filter dashboard/report by default

Have a current date that globally can filter reports/dashboards without having to manually select it. When running a dashboard it should automatically be filtered for current day/week/month/year if thats in the dashboard
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for clauses of aggregate functions in DQM

In 10.2.1 FP3 DQM added the support for aggregate functions (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660309. Specially the listagg function is of concern. The listagg function on DB2 has a specific within group clause, that is used for ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Summary Options Crosstabs in Dashboards

Users need more summary functionality besides just "hide summaries". We want to be set whether to summarize the rows and columns, just the rows, or just the columns. We also want to be able to display the summaries at the top of the columns or beg...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add start/completion times to My Activities (Past Activities)

Now that the My Activities option has been added back to Cognos Analytics, some additional options would make the tool a little more useful. When viewing My Activities and looking at Past Activities, can the ability to view the start/completion of...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration