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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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Add ability to manage used sender mail address of scheduled mail report output

In our company reports are being scheduled and the output can be sent to multiple mail recipients. Report builders are mostly part of a team and are used to communicate to the organisation as a team by using a team mail address. But, the used send...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Rows Per Page - Configuration of Default Property

Rows per page property is set to a default 20 rows per page in lists, crosstabs, and other reporting objects. 20 is a very low number causing users frustration and many paginations. Other solutions provided thus far do not set the global value, ra...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Load offline base maps to Cognos

Load offline base map to Cognos
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Personnalized Session Parameter

We need to add a Session Parameter available in Frame Work Manager or Report. The purpose is to personnalize a parameter by environnment production, validation, etc in the Cognos configuration context and use it in FM or Report.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Table - De-/Select all elements in the filter

I'm missing an option to select and deselect alle elements in the filter dialog of the data table.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Data Files Limits Configurable per user group

Within Cognos 11, you can identify a size limit per upload and a max size limit per user. However, if you modify these limits, you are affecting all users of the environment who can upload files. Ideally, it would be helpful for some users that be...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration