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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Possibility to use custom fonts in Cognos Analytics On Demand

Many times customers want to customize report look and feel to corporate standard. Fonts are one part of that. At the moment in Cognos Analytics On Demand there is no possibility to load custom fonts that corporate is using.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Recent Data Sources for Reports and Dashboards

We miss the functionality of seeing recently used data sources when starting the creation of a new dashboard or report. The user will always need to navigate to the proper location and select the data source. This functionality was available in Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable/enable application/navigation bar in cognos portal

We would like to have an option to enable/disable the cognos analytics navigation/application bards in the interface. For example by adding the check box option for navigation bar & application bar lines in manage > accounts > cognos rol...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Save to the file system" Feature for Cognos 11 Portal

Currently the Cognos 10 view in Cognos 11 has the "Save to the file system" capability when scheduling the report. I would to get his added in the normal Cognos 11 portal .
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos integration with Spark

Support Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

default path to save new report

For new reports, Cognos Analytics always default the save path to location of the latest data source used in the report. This default option is not convenient in our environment as we keep separated Data Sources and Reports in different folder str...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Package to Data Module

Could IBM provide a tool or a way to easily convert an existing Cognos Package as a Data Module? This will help with faster adoption as we would not need to manually re-create a FM model in Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration