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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Improve the speed for Excel import in Cognos For MS Office

To display in MS Excel, some list reports ran in Excel format take four to five time longer than ran in Excel data.We know that import format is not the same (CSV Vs. LDX) but it would be great if the speed could be improved
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Override output email addresses

Ability to override the recipient email address (not sender as I know you can already do this).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Analysis, Workspace etc. directly from the package

Currently, we are able to see only Report and Dashboard creation options, in the 'More' options of the package. It will be convenient if we can open all other studios, like Event, Analysis, Workspace, etc., directly from the package itself.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Resizable windows Drill-through Definition in Report Studio

As a report developer I often need to open existing drill-through definitions, explore and edit parameter mapping. When report contains more than 9 parameters (the most of my enterprise customer reports), I have to scroll down / up for display all...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restart Individual Services with one click in Cognos

When stopping and starting individual services in Cognos Administration without restarting all services, there should be a "restart" option in addition to "stop" and "start". It would start the service as soon as the service successfully stops -- ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide chart axes in Dashboarding

Need an additional property available on charts within Dashboarding to hide chart axes. Charts already have many properties available on the x and y axis respectively but there is no option to hide the axis line entirely like there is in reporting.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wordcloud interactivity

Currently, a word cloud is filtered by the filters in the "all tabs" or "this tab" pane. When a user applies a filter on another visualization, the words in the cloud will be highlighted. We would like to have the ability in the properties to opt...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Elimination of Dropdown list

Client environment uses LDAP for Active Directory, since the Client Active Directory domain has several domains (BDS, and CDS) when two namespaces have to be created in order to recognize users in each domain(BDS or CDS). This is an SSO environmen...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

If the password expires, the user can register a new password.

When the password expires, the customer will not be able to log in and change the password.If the customer can move to the password change screen even in this state, the customer can register a new password.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration