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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Cognos Analytics

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Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Access to audit data

We have created a dashboard to be able to do analysis on the audit data in our Cognos Analytics on Cloud hosted environment. The issue is that the IBM CAoC provided audit database is too slow, so the widgets are never able to complete, and the das...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
5 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...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Dashboard - Link Tabs together (Hyperlinks)

One of our customers needs to have this navigation scenario implemented in Cognos Analytics Dashboard: Ability to link Dashboard tabs together by having a hyperlink on a text item or box in a tab that a user can click on and that takes the user di...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

schedule deliverer as a property

The user that an email-based schedule is sent from should be a property on the schedule. Currently, the sender of the email is the last user that modified the schedule. This can get confusing as a system admin may add/remove recipients etc on a sc...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Format label alignment on data player on dashboard and report

have a data player with many labels / filter items that it plays through (eg. each week for a year). I want to format the labels to be angled or something like that so that they are readable.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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