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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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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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Rerun Failed Reports

Every once in a while we have a database down when scheduled reports are set to be run. When this happens we have to re-run the scheduled reports. Currently the process is to filter on past report schedule history, select failed reports. Open the ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos to be automatically redirected on session timeout

According to this IBM Technote (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22011410) there is currently no way to redirect to an external product's logon screen. This causes undesirable behavior when linking Cognos to our SSO page. We are ab...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notification of timeouts via popup or connection indicator in PAx

Would like a more visual indication that you've been timed out from your connection in PAx as it's not easy to tell if you been disconnected. Perhaps a status indicator for when you are connected or disconnected in the menu, or at least a popup no...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Connection between widget and filter area filters

I would like to specify connection between each filter and each widget. Currently you can't define what widget work with which filter (from filter area). Its all or nothing.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Write-back from a Cognos Analytics report into Planning Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics needs to be able to write-back int TM1/Planning Analytics database. This is necessary not only to reduce the amount of tools a business user dealing with planning and actual data needs to use, but also to allow Cognos the use ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Launch Report Studio through URL along with embedded package to use

Unable to launch Report Studio with an embedded package, which we were able to do in Cognos 10.2.2. Clients are given the ability to create their own reports by defining profile and package (restrctive) in the URL to launch Report Studio. We do no...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Show different report icon change if there is saved output available

One thing which made the old Cognos 10 interface better than the new Cognos Analytics 11 was the ability to look at the state of a report and tell, at a glance, if there was any saved output available. The new CA 11 interface does not provide this...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In Cognos Administration, add an additional entry called 'Subscriptions'

In the Administration Console, Status tab, add an additional entry (for example, below Calendars) called 'Subscriptions'. Display the list of reports with subscriptions (like thecalendars).In the properties of a report, provide the following infor...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration