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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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Mobile Friendly Responsive UI in Cognos when viewing from mobile devices not just dashboard

When accessing Cognos from Android browser, UI need to be responsive and mobile friendly option/menu to have fluid experience
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ABILITY FOR SORTING BOTH AXIS IN A HEATMAP CHART

the sorting on both axis in an Heat Map Chart is not working correctly. Only one axis is sorted while the other axis will lose the sort order that was defined before.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add ForgeRock / OpenAM to the OpenID providers

No Authentication Provider exists in Analytics R7/R8 for OpenID with ForgeRock or OpenAM.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

compatibleProductVersion should have a "silent fail" option

When writing an extension the compatibleProductVersion object allows you to specify which versions the extension should work with. In theory this is great as it would allow the extension author to build a single package that covers multiple versio...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Filter Linked Visualizations When Filtered Field Exists in the Visualization

Linked visualizations currently only highlight when a value is selected in another visualization containing the same field; if a visualization does not contain the same field, then values are filtered. We need all linked visualizations to behave c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Breadcrumb navigation

Please add another prompt choice for breadcrumbs so that the drill down path in the hierarchy is shown and additionally clickable. The navigation bar on the left side in Cognos Analytics uses this method to navigate the Team Content and administra...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Saved Report Output to Microsoft OneDrive

My full content store export (backup) is over 70GB because my Cognos users save tons of report output...which they claim they need. I need to drastically reduce they size of my content store database and would like to offload they saved output to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration