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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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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

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Themes should apply to legacy tools

Themes currently do not update the banners in Query Studio. The themes should update all tools.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SSGA

Alternate method for updating the Stored procedure data type changes in Cognos Instead of Framework manager.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report "Pending status" duration of batch/interactive reports in Audit

As per number of (batch/report service) processes and affinity connections set in dispatcher tuning properties, number of parallel reports will be limited. When all configured processes and connections are in use, any new report gets submitted wil...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Custom System Use Notification at first Login

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) have similar information technology control requirements based on NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Special Publication 800-53 (Rev. 4) Secur...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration