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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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Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Export files REST API Call for Script Automation

We need export file/package REST API call for script automation but there is no call related to that in this reference cognos REST API doc - https://dhcsdevtestcog.ca.analytics.ibm.com/api/api-docs/#/ Impact in our promotional process automationfr...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted

CPD Cognos Analytics does not allow report ‘save to file’ in external managed NFS.

Customer WestPac requires an emergency fix to CPD Cognos Analytics service. The Cognos feature that Westpac is requesting is under investigation by the Cognos dev team. The feature is already available in our traditional Cognos deployment but not ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Spooler error/Query error issue

Widely used package - huge filter - 20-30 prompt pages - more or less - don't like to save in HTML, like to bring into Excel - User experience is.. run in Thoughtspot (6 mos of data), night and day - maybe cached, whereas Cognos runs seasonal/18 m...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted