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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.

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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Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Too much wasted space between Name and location in the Portal

Notice you cannot change the column width. The location is cut off. I could hover over it but I should not have to do that. Too much wasted space between Name and location.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Allow use of wildcards in Search requests

Allow use of wildcard characters in "search" text strings. The allowable characters could emulate those defined by Google (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Event Agent enhancement request

Ability to drag (move) a dialogue box around while creating/editing of an Event Agent. A picture is attached showing the dialogue box. However, it can not be moved around.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release