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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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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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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

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...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

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

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...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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

Organization methods for extensions

At the moment the extensions appears as a list. When you have dozens of extensions it can be painful to find any specific extension. I'd like to add tags to extensions that will allow the admin to filter the list. I see it as being part of the spe...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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