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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Where can I find audit trail of actions performed on a Dynamic Cube. STOP/START/REFRESH etc. PMR 04729,7TD,000

Where can I find audit trail of actions performed on a Dynamic Cube. STOP/START/REFRESH etc. PMR 04729,7TD,000
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to set preferred user name than generated Informix user

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our field fail to install cognos analytics using easy install option in some customer environments for POCs as customers have limitation of not using local users or simple user names such as Informix. When ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Repair PAX to enable formulas in the Excel cell (such as SUBNM or DBRW,etc.)

If open Custom Report (or Dynamic Report) then the figures don’t refresh using PAX IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.46
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Glass UI Search Functionality

Currently Cognos Analytics uses costly LDAP searches when browsing a namespace.If you search for an individual user however the search behaviour fast and as expected. If however the result of the search would require you to adjust the search, then...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send report output via email

Once a report has been run in a portlet (in this case a SharePoint Page Viewer web part) there is no option to be able to send the report output via email. The client would like this functionality to be added to the product (either via a button th...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to create a percentage of the single rows instead of a simple total in a active report

It is impossible to create a percentage of the single row instead of a simple total in a active report. In a normal report it is possible to insert a query calculation into a cell but this is not possible to do in an active report. Enable the func...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration