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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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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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New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Email notification: Add an option "on who should be notified when a report fails and also to include the report execution status like Success/Fail in the notification"

Currently, we don't get any notification when a report (either scheduled or non scheduled report like for batch mode report execution) fails so it should be good if we can have "add an option on who should be notified when a report fails for the e...
almost 4 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

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration