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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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  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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Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

execute reports, data sets, and jobs using a webhook

The modern data stack involves various technologies for extraction, loading, and transformation of data. Achieving appropriate sequence across technologies can be a challenge but webhooks can resolve this issue to allow different platforms to comm...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dashboard List text wrapping

As a dashboard user, I would like to be able to display the full text of a Level field without having to hover over the text. Our use case requires us to display the dashboard on a large screen where users don't have the ability to hover over. Pro...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill through doesn't work on saved report version

Save copy of a report does not allow drill through
about 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

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auto size folder panel based on folder path and object name

Make the folder/object panel auto size based on the folder path and object name. Currently the panel can be manually sized but this is something that most applications offer automatically and is expected by our users.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display of Data Labels alongside location names on MAP Visualizations

System: MAP Visualization in Cognos AnalyticsActor: Plotting Measurable quantities on Maps alongside Location When we see a MAP Visualization on a REPORT or DASHBOARD module in Cognos Analytics, we see the Color variances, the Location Accuracies,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using numerical attribute from Planning Analytcis within Cognos Analytics

TS000103720When using a Planning Analytics cube as a data source, numerical Attributes with the value of 0 are not visible in reports.Therefore, for the numeric value 0, there are no possibilities to filter or set a default value for any prompt it...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration