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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

  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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REST API: return more object details

For the Cognos Analytics REST API to provide the ability to remotely and automatically administer Cognos Analytics, all information about objects must be available through the REST API. Please make detailed items like report specifications, data m...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted
696 VOTE

Send Email on Report Failure

We need an email sent to the report author when a scheduled report fails. This way, we could re-run the report or research the failure.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11
697 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

REST API: My Content

/api/v1/content/my_content/items leads to only the contents of the My Content folder of the user logged in to the session used in the REST API call. Administrators must be able to manage content across My Content folders for all users. Please prov...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

REST API: Content Ancestors

Objects returned by /api/v1/modules include an ancestors object, making it simple to identify the location of the data module. Please provide an ancestors object for objects returned by /api/v1/modules/<storeID>, /api/v1/content/<storeID&...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
604 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration
535 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted