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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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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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Canadian Data Centre for Cognos On-Demand

Many Canadian organizations require that all their data stay within Canada (both for storage and transit). A Canadian data centre is currently not available for Cognos On-Demand.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Period of inaction while building a report. Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout

Period of inaction while building a report.Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout Part 2If you have a period of inaction. Cognos becomes unresponsive, but does not direct you back to login screen to re-login....
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 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My Parameters should also work with Dashboards

My parameters is superb functionality that works with reports and many customers would benefit from it. Unfortunately it is not widely used. This is partly because it is not possible to use My Parameters with Dashboards, Stories and Exploration.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager: Option to allow "true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation" using conformed dimensions

Framework Manager: Provide an option to allow true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation using conformed dimensions In other words: provide a way to suppress the use of stitch columns in well defined models.PMR: TS001052591
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global parameters with group permission

In Cognos Analytics the concept of global parameters was introduced. in the Administration section you can set permissions on paramters based on user roles. If a user has more roles you need to set the priority. It would be helpful if the permissi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of security administration of capability Upload Files

In CA11, we can only administrate which group, role and user are granted or denied to use Capability Upload Files (Via Administration Console > Security > Capabilities > Upload Files). More permission details to secure per group, role and...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration