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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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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,

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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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Cognos Analytics

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Add/Pin user specific Folder(s) to left navigation bar

Majority of our users are using more than one solution and therefore need access to more than one folder structure constantly. Current possibility to add user role specific folders limits having only one pinned folder. Giving user functionality to...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to change label names in pivot tables and cross tabs in Cognos Analytics dashboards

We would like the ability to change the label names in pivot tables and cross tabs in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch from non-interactive to interactive report

A report with V11 abilities to interact with it will not work with this feature when it is a drill through form a report without this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Master/Detail property to 11.1 Visualisations

Master/Detail relationship has always existed in Report Studio. But he is missing in the latest news visualization. This is a basic feature of Cognos and I do not understand how it is possible that it has not been implemented. it is necessary to...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Import uploaded file with a parameterised wizard

have the opportunity to monitor Cognos when it interpret the txt file content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Canadian Data Centre for Cognos On-Demand

Many Canadian organizations require that all their data stay within Canada (both for storage and transit). A Canadian data centre is currently not available for Cognos On-Demand.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration