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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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  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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Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Put fields/Date Items in folders and also mark as hidden in a data module

Some fields in datamodules will be things like surrogate keys, which I dont want users to see or use. Currently I dont see a way to hide them. Additionally when there are a number of fields in a table, it is more logical for users to see these in ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Installation progress details in Silent installation

Hi Team, Recently i used congos 11 analytics server installation on our premise and used Command line procedure as silent installation with response file. I observed that while installation it is not giving any progress of installation procedu...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable or disable cache setting globally

Currently we can enable or disable the cache setting at individual report/dashboard/Data Module level. Sometimes this cache setting helps in improving performance and some time disabling it helps the performance improvement. If such setting is ava...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Provide Full Cognos Analytics Functionality When Running From A Mobile Device

Provide the ability to create data modules and perform administrative tasks when running/accessing Cognos Analytics from a mobile device (i.e. iPad).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Deliver a warning when the schedule end date is approaching

Is anyway we get warning or any message for ending date. We want to know report schedule end date approaching. So that we can extended our schedule or any automatically extend the end date.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Drill down to any path(dimension) feature

User can create a report in "Cognos Report Studio" and have the ability to enable the drill down features. But the drill down options are based on the pre-defined hierarchies those created in the Dynamic Cubes or any framework deployed packages. A...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for VARBINARY data type (HANA) in DQM in IBM Cognos Analytics

The import of fields with the data type VARBINARY from HANA in IBM Framework Manager rises an error. To connect to HANA DQM mode is required. The import of fields with an VARBINARY data type in IBM Framework Manager causes the DQM-error XQE-GEN-00...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete report View from Subscription folder when last subscription is deleted

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 when a user delete's his Subscriptions through the 'Modify my schedules and subscriptions' menu the Report View in this Subscriptions folder isn't deleted even when it is the last Schedule on the Report View to be deleted.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration