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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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Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Frozen crosstab columns and rows in Cognos reports as a default

In current Cognos Analytics versions it is possible to freeze crosstab columns and rows in reports by right-clicking them. Could it be possible to add report feature that you could set crosstab columns and rows as frozen already when designing rep...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search results remain on the screen

In home screen, when client select "Team Contents Folder" and search the report, the result is displayed. Once we go to another screen and return to the report selection screen again, the search results are displayed. At that time, we want to be a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable email options for specific group

Disabled email options for specific group
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Tool Behavior and Email Notifications for Scheduled Reports

Currently, we have configured scheduled reports to be automatically generated and emailed to designated recipients at specific intervals. While this feature greatly enhances our workflow efficiency, we have noticed a behavior that we believe could...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow users to move columns in interactive viewer

Users have the ability to set their own groups and subtotals within the interactive viewer. If I provide a simple list report to be used in the interactive viewer and one user wants to group by Customer and another wants to group by Project Manage...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add the LogviewV2 utility back in CA 11.x to read server logs

Can't seem to find a CA equivalent to the logviewV2 utility that was bundled with Cognos 10.X. My understanding is that log viewer was an internal application that wasn't meant to be integrated into Cognos. It was a tool for IBM dev/support that w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration