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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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Include Dashboards in Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact"

Currently the Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact" just scans reports for changed objects in the model.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Edit in Preview Mode Default Action to report properties

Adding a default action of "Edit in preview mode" to report properties would help with lots of users who are using Analysis Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced in C10 get more quickly customized with Cognos Analytics as context filters and metadat...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi select dropdown prompts

Hi Team, We woud love to have the multi-select value prompts as a drop down along with list or check box.I could see this functionality when I run the reports on IPAD but in desktop the reports aren't pretty with a list box.We have over 10 prompts...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive vs Non-interactive re-run differences

When you click the run on an interactive report, not the drop down on the run you get a prompt page to re-run. If you click the drop down there is no reset prompts and run choice. When you click the run on a non-interactive report, you get a drop ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration