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


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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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More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Burst functionality is not available for reports with Crosstab & Charts

Our reports have only Crosstab and charts, adding a list does not help. Please let us know if we can burst the report with only crosstab & charts
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Firefox Single Signon via code

If LDAP is configured for single sign on, Chrome and IE browsers will comply but Firefox browser will not comply. It would be nice to have a way to have uniform browsing method for all browsers with single sign on enabled.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
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Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable a Time out value if an Active CM is unable to contact a configured Standby CM

Enable a time out value if the active CM is unable to reach a configured standby CM for any reason, and unregister the malfunctioning CM from the list of dispatchers
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to uninstall a version of Cognos Analytics to return to previous version

Ability to uninstall a version of Cognos Analytics to return to previous version
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permission to create in the database

At the end of the Content Store configuration it tests the permission to create tables. We have created the tables manually , the permission to create tables is not necessary.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration