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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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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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Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Search Path visibility in Properties of an object

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were able to get the search path of the object from the properties menu. In Cognos 11 we have no possibility to get the search path of the object. The search path is a important information for us when searching for problems i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for TLS 1.2 (OpenSSL 1.0.1) to Cognos Gateway Apache module

The Apache module for the Cognos BI gateway (mod2_2_cognos.so) is currently compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8. In order to be run on a web server that supports TLS 1.2, this component needs to be compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1g or above.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to limit report output options

We have sensitive report content that we don't want the user to have the ability email/export/save. Only view in Cognos Connection
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists