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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Make charts show data drop zones by default

Charts hide the drop zones by default, but dragging an item over the chart will automatically show the drop zones.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Chart Axis Range not honored

System: IBM Cognos 11.0.x or 10.2.xActor: Report developerDescription: Report developers want to produce charts that show sufficient detail for the smaller values in a report without regard for known anomalies that lie outside some reasonable rang...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable Analysis Studio in Cogno Analytics on the Cloud

We have a customer migrating to Cloud via the Bridge to Cloud program. They are currently leveraging a decent number of PowerCubes, on premises, utilizing Analysis Studio. Currently Cognos Analytics on Cloud doesn't enable Analysis Studio, relegat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

More options to modify axes in a dashboard

The new dashboarding function in Cognos Analytics has limited customization for charts. In particular, it would be useful to be able to: 1. Hide the axis title for each axis individually2. Change the color of the axes, axis titles, and labels
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Gantt chart visualization tool tip should show start and finish date of BAR

When using standard visualization of Gantt chart, it is not displaying proper dates in tool tip.Currently it shows no. of days since 01/01/1970.Suppose the start date is : 21/07/2015Tooltip will show : Number of days = 21/07/2015 - 01/01/1970 Expe...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Query Execution with Report Tabs

When utilizing report tabs feature all queries must validate and execute before content can be delivered. It would be better if each tab could validate and execute individually to server content quicker.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

RS 10.2.2 fix Save icon (floppy) always looks dim. color it when save needed

The current save icon in Report studio always looks dim to me. Other icons will be dim (grey) or colored depending if its applicable or not. IE when working with a query, filter icon (and icons to right) are all dimmed. When working with a reporti...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

by default email options set to "Include a link to the report" to avoid hugh attachments clogging up the system

update default option in "advanced options" when report is selected to be mailed to "Include a link to the report" instead of "Attach the report"; This is meant to avoid that endusers accidentally forget to untick the default "Attach the report"; ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Deactivate report object toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "report object toolbar" in the Cognos viewer with full interactivity when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Delivered

Optimize conversion to native sql for "_xxx_between" common functions in DB2 LUW and activate database processing for "_months_between"

Many of our reports use the "_months_between" common function which is locally processed in DQM. Local processing is generally a problem and we want to process as many workload as possible directly on database. A deeper look into what happens behi...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Delivered