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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Using Pins within Stories

One way to create a story is to use pins - going into a dashboard and pinning a visualization - which then becomes part of "My Pins" within the story. What would be nice is for an administrator to be able to create a Global Pin or denote an existi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display of Cognos Content from navigation folder as 10.2.2 by type of content

we found a different behavior when you navigate on team content folders. On Cognos BI 10.2.2, the content (inside folders) is order by type and then by name or date, it is easy to see the difference between reports, subfolders, view, dashboard. On...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Lifecycle Manager support for SSO and related authentication

Cognos LifeCycle Manager is a very useful tool for upgrade projects. But as of now it does not support SSO and related authentication challenges. But most of the implementations happens with SSO and/or secured protocols. It will help during upgrad...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Lineage functionality for Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Analytics should have the functionality to present data lineage for packages/data models based on Dynamic Cubes.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keeping the Color Scheme - Dashboard to Explorations

The Dashboards have a color scheme that matches the scheme of the Solution they are embedded into. If you select a visualization, and drill into it, the color scheme is lost. This is problematic if there is a specific RAG, or escalation color sche...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PRESENTATION SERVICE SHOWS AN ERROR WHICH IS NOT ONE FOR PRS-PRO-0511 MESSAGE IN THE LOGS

Since Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 the cognosserver.log file shows an error message which is not one : 2019-02-12T07:00:00.079+0100 ERROR Audit.xts [Thread-401] NA Info Success PresentationService PRS-PRO-0511 A partial reinitialization of the XTS proc...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration