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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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Cognos Analytics

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Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sorting schedules by name in Cognos Administration Portal

High need to sort schedules in the Administration portal by name and an easy way to search for a schedule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to link (global) parameters default value, to a query

Add the capabilities to link the default value of Global Parameters with a query/report, so that there'll be no need to change them once a week or event monthly.In the same way, also the default value of normal parameters (prompt) could be fill au...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shortcut sorting location

I have been informed by a business unit that manages a folder that the folder should be renamed and moved. While that unit manages the contents of the folder, they are not the only users of said content. Moving and/or renaming the folder will conf...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow passing an id_token_hint into the Logout Redirect URL when logging out of OIDC namespaces

With OpenID Providers such as KeyCloak, it has previously been possible to send a user to their logout URL directly, without providing any token. For example: http://{domain-name}/auth/realms/{realm-name}/protocol/openid-connect/logout?redirect_ur...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's ve...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Embed Python, R or Spark code in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to embed Python, R or Spark code within Cognos Analytics. Not sure on where to put it, but I think the best place is likely embedded in a data module, to allow for reuse on multiple reports and dashboards.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration