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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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Ability to apply 'stoplight' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to apply 'stop-light' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Remove option to print a report output

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us, the idea of printing on a printer connected to the network that the server...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exclude hidden modules/data sets/packages from search in Dashboards

Dashboards include a search feature that gives users ability to use natural language to scan the content store for data sources that might contain information to answer a question of what is needed for a dashboard. This search should exclude hidde...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Bulk replace option

Problem: After Selecting Tables from a DB. You want to format and rename some of the labels. Most DB use a _ of other prefixes. For now there is no other GUI option to select multiple items and rename or search and replace texst items like _ or ot...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to disable Pin command on dashboard visualizations toolbar

Sended here by IBM support team. Some people can Pin visualizations outside the dashboard context. And this option can compromise our Data Management policies.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Enable Jupyter Notebook

Our team is a data science team and we are using Cognos Analytics to provide analytics to our clients. We do several data quality metrics using Jupyter Notebook and we would like to make it available to our clients in a dynamic mode in Cognos. We ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add CA integration with Github

We would like to have native cognos analytics integration to github to store all sources/specs (reports/dashboards/..) to implement easily CI/CD. Today we use third party tools to version and deliver but with github integration it would be more na...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

dashboard show filter

insert in the dashboards the ability to view the value of the filter applied as in the report studio, without the need to click on the funnel
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration