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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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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to search email distribution lists for scheduled reports

It would be great if users who scheduled distributed reports could search for email addresses. A recent scenario, we had a student worker who was on a distribution email list, that student left and went to another department. The student still had...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMR 51742,442,000- Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.

1. Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.2. Refreshing list with less data leaves empty row and column cells3. Refreshing list with more data does not get published
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to Disable Diagonal Flashing Animation When Data is Loading or Refreshing in Dashboard Tool

When loading or refreshing dashboard data, there is a new diagonal flashing animation on the widgets - this can occur when the dashboard is first launched or when clicking on another widget to filter down/refresh the data. A number of users have r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow session logging to use remote log server settings

While a remote log server can be used to redirect logging into cogaudit.log to a dedicated server whitin a distributed environment, this is currently not possible for session logging. Also session logging should take care of the remote log server ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

block the possibility of "double-logging"

Add the possibility to either block the possibility of "double-logging" - at the risk of hindering the work of administrators who often log on from different terminals/browsers simultaneously, unless the blockage can be made selective - or/and to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep schedule when copying reports

Customer moves a report, report view or event and the schedule stays with the object. If one copies a said item the schedule gets removed which is understandable or it would run twice. However, if you copy and want to keep the copy you have to cre...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mapping of the parameter user name - official documentation by IBM

Request relates to the case TS007570460 from IBM support. The subject matter is the inappropriate mapping of the parameter user name in CP4D, i.e. ambigous mapping of user name. By default the mapping of the user name in CP4D is not equal to the m...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration