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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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HTML (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) export to PDF, Excel (Cognos Connection)

We want to run a report with a map to excel, PDF etc. In the attachment you can see what happends when we run a report with a integeomap in PDF (modus).
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Embed CA 11 in SharePoint 2013, 2016

CA 11 supports the "classic" report viewer being embedded in web applications including SharePoint 2013/2016 via URLs, but embedding the new CA 11 portal, interactive reports and dashboards is not documented and fails - specifically in SP 2016/201...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

Drill through doesn't work on saved report version

Save copy of a report does not allow drill through
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open connectivity into Cognos FM packages for 3rd party tools ala Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx

Cognos Analytics Framework Manager packages probably constitute the best data governance platform in the market and it would be of even greater value if we could leverage our modeling investment by having connector access to the packages in 3rd pa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration