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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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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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Point(dot) chart, dots are overlapping, its not good for visualization

Cognos Analytics Dashboard: We cannot set the opacity on the chart, only the whole chart it self. The dots are overlapping each other, thus not every mark is visible on the chart. Allow to change the opacity of the dots on the chart.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Action Menu (more button) to Recent section under the Hamburger Menu

In 11.2.2, when I go to recent in the hamburger menu, I can only remove from recent. I used to be able to share, copy, move, etc. I would like to be able to do these things again.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable query hints at report level to avoid override model level or server level governance

There are a few governors that we want to ensure they cannot be overridden at report level. 1. Maximum row retrieved (report level)/Maximum number of retrieved rows (model level) 2. Maximum execution time (report level)/Query execution time limit ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search feature with a "Value Prompt"

Allow user to have search feature with a "Value Prompt".
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend filter name cutoff in report creation

A user opening a report might want to look at the query details and quickly see exactly what is going on in the report. However, because the filter names seem to have a 50 char limit on the display, nearly every filter built into a data module is ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Provide Dynamic Cube Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of meta-data

Provide Dynamic Cube (DC) Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of data source meta-data. This setting would allow the same DC model to reference a TEST and PROD version of a data source in which different case characters we...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Server and Data Source Connection Management

To add on to: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013646 Under the "Admin Classic UI," I see both Data Server and Data Source Connections. With a couple of hundred Analytics Users who will likely create a few Data Server Connectio...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Save As show Recent Saved Folder NOT Team Content root

When creating Different Version of a Dashboard, each time I want to save a New Version, I would go to Save As and see my Recent Folder which I have saved Previous VersionsYet, each Time I go to Save As, it brings me back to Team Content (root) whi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release