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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,

  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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Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using Ystart drop zone should result in having an adjusted value axis starting point

If you use the Ystart options in a column chart in dashboarding, the columns will effectively start at the selected Y-value, but the resulting visualisation will just show an empty space below the Y-value.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Cognos to Essbase Connectivity

To connect Cognos 11.0.* to Essbase 11.1.2.3.*. for reporting. This will help users to have front end reporting for Essbase using Cognos
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set global parameters in Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Ability to set the use/display value for a parameter once in a project and have it use across multiple reports
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple Targets in Bar and Column Dashboard visualizations

We are trying to create a plan vs actual cost visualization but want to leverage multiple plans. For instance, we have the plan at the beginning of the year as well as the current revised plan. In both bar and column charts, they have the option f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add more data server connections

Add connectors to Azure offerings, particularly SQL Azure.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Full support for all Canada Postal Codes (6 digits) in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps

Current support for Canadian Postal Codes in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps is limited to the first 3 digits of the postal code. To satisfy reporting requirements, we are needing the ability to map the geographic areas for all Canadian Postal Codes with...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Syncronized navigation paths

When using a Cognos Analytics dashboard, multiple visualizations often share a common column and thus a common navigation path. There should be a property, much like the widget connections property, that allows the dashboard developer to synchroni...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration