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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

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  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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My ideas: Cognos Analytics

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Open connectivity into Cognos FM packages for 3rd party tools ala Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx

Cognos Analytics Framework Manager packages probably constitute the best data governance platform in the market and it would be of even greater value if we could leverage our modeling investment by having connector access to the packages in 3rd pa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Implement a relying-party backchannel logout URL to allow for Single Signout.

When integrating Cognos elements into a portal, secured against OIDC namespace, it would be helpful if we could employ token-based single-signout from our OIDC provider, rather than having to force the users to log-out manually from Cognos Analyti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Submitted

Drill through doesn't work on saved report version

Save copy of a report does not allow drill through
over 7 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...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display of Data Labels alongside location names on MAP Visualizations

System: MAP Visualization in Cognos AnalyticsActor: Plotting Measurable quantities on Maps alongside Location When we see a MAP Visualization on a REPORT or DASHBOARD module in Cognos Analytics, we see the Color variances, the Location Accuracies,...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto size folder panel based on folder path and object name

Make the folder/object panel auto size based on the folder path and object name. Currently the panel can be manually sized but this is something that most applications offer automatically and is expected by our users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using numerical attribute from Planning Analytcis within Cognos Analytics

TS000103720When using a Planning Analytics cube as a data source, numerical Attributes with the value of 0 are not visible in reports.Therefore, for the numeric value 0, there are no possibilities to filter or set a default value for any prompt it...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration