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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


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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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Peak / Non-Peak periods to be defined in hh:mm

As an administrator in cognos administration add option to define peak and non/peak periods in server (services) properties not only in hours but also in minutes like hh:mm. Hours only is a basic limitation for this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Progress bar while running a report

Oftentimes, when we are running a large report (that could take for example 10 minutes), we would like to see the progress of the loading of the report. This way, we could see if the loading got stuck, or if a report still needs only 1 minute, or ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

XML as a datasource in 64bit

I am trying to use XML as a source for one our reports. When we moved from Cognos 10.x to 11.0.5, we get rid of all 32 bit dispatchers and made everything as 64bit only. How when I try to use the XML source, it fails since it can only work in Comp...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the company template as default

We have migrated to 11.0.12 recently and would like to make a template for our company and make it a standard template for all the reports. After the template creation we would like to make it selected by default for all users so they don't have t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, Content Store, Audit Store and Notification Store databases are hosted on a Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance. Authentication mode is Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication for the databases. As of now Cognos Analytics supports on...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Have Sticky Filters on Dashboards

I would like to have a dashboard with defined filters where users could view the Dashboard and in view mode change the filter values and NOT have to save the Dashboard. The next time they open the Dashboard, it would have their last filter values....
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formatting on Planning Analytics not applied as default format in Cognos Analytics.

Problem statement: A solution was created by a US team in Planning Analytics with a set of percentages, the data was then vizualised in Cognos Analytics. We have user all over the world, and users have set the content language to their local langa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creating new dashboards from old reports

It would be great if we could either pin a report and be able to select it into a new dashboard. Or, have the ability to copy a report, or report object, and be able to paste into a new dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration