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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Support creation of Navigation paths with Framework Manager and Transfomer

Both Framework manager and Transfomer should be able to support creation Navigation paths like available within Data modules
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HTML (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) export to PDF, Excel (Cognos Connection)

We want to run a report with a map to excel, PDF etc. In the attachment you can see what happends when we run a report with a integeomap in PDF (modus).
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Web Services Calls Needed

Web Services Calls previously supported by VVM in the Cognos 10 environment are needed to support the transition to Cognos 11.0.10 These items are critical to the success of the transition and are stopping us from being able to move forward. This ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Dashboard scaling "Fit To Window"

Make a dashboard fit to window, so that you don't have to scroll down but always see the whole dashboard. A dashboard is not always 100% responsive because it doesn't automatically fit the browser window. Instead there is a vertical scroll bar to...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release