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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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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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Improve the location of trendline label on the line chart

Improve the location of trendline label on the line chart
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All personal settings (incl. tile/list view setting welcomepage) should be stored in Content Store

In the recent section within the welcome page I personally like the list view more than the tile view. In some environments users experience problems since these personal settings return to it's original default state (the tile view) after restart...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard List Visualization Direction Property

Add a property to the list visualization that allows users to specify a vertical or horizontal list.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Multi-tenancy support with Azure AD (openID connection)

We want an option where we can tell Cognos to ignore the issuer value. Issuer value is only needed if we need to make access based decisions based on tenant id. In our environments we have no requirement of using this functionality. This seems to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

External Application Server support for Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 has taken off external application server support for its application to be deployed on, till Cognos 10.2.1 we had been using WebSphere ND to host the p2pd and now WebSphere Liberty is being offered out of the box as the only o...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Bring back support for Virtual View Manager (ODBC) data source

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were using IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager (ODBC) also known as Composite (ODBC) data source to select online a WSDL interfaceand also in Data Manager as package data source.In Cognos Analytics VVM has been deprecated in 11.0.2...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted