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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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Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to word wrap long text values in Dashboard visualizations

On Dashboard visualizations, when the data items, containing long strings of text, are added to visualizations, the text values are cut off. Customers need to ability to enable word wrap.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a date between filter on scheduled jobs, events and reports to the NOT admin variant

When you want to check the scheduled jobs, events and reports and you are not an admin, you should be able to use a between date filter. Now you can select only 1 date instead of more
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AI Assistant on the welcome page

To use AI Assistant, the user needs to be inside a data model or data package. However; it would be more efficient if it can be displayed on the welcome screen so the user can use AI Assistant to navigate and browse entire data sets and select one...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Show report location/path in the job

It is currently impossible to see the location of the report. So it is difficult to see if you’ve the right report in the job. If you’re not sure, the only way to make it sure is to remove the report in the job and add it again. You need to config...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics does not suport Google Big Query Data Nested Record Type

Google Big Query supports nested record type .Currently Cognos Analytics has no way of knowing that it is not a VARCHAR, driver will return a RECORD type as a VARCHAR with a string in a JSON format .As a result any nested field with record type re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow more control over prompt UI (e.g. padding)

In Cognos Analytics we have no control over the padding between the items in a value prompt. The amount of padding is excessive and limits the number of prompt values which can be displayed when the value prompt drops down. This forces the user to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration