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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Add and support JDBC / DQM functionality for Progress clients

Support for Progress OpenEdge JDBC connections for IBM Cognos Analytics to report critical information. With CA 11.0.2 Progress no longer supports Progress OpenEdge ODBC with no JDBC support for DQM dashboarding/story telling functionality for Pro...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User-friendly preview mode

Preview mode should use the initially set prompt parameters.See document in attachment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Select Own Custom Designed Mapbox Layers

Mapbox Studio allows you to design custom maps, including using your own data. You should be able to use your own Mapbox basemaps, instead of only the 10 or so basemaps provided by Cognos.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When dashboard opens in non-edit mode, it should open in full screen mode by default

When we click on the dashboard link, it opens in non edit mode by default. So when it opens in non-edit mode, it should have the ability to open in full screen mode by default (without having to click the full screen mode button)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A feature for "Retention tags" to establish retention categories and date ranges for Object in the Portal.

A feature that would allow users/admins to set a date limit on reports or any object so say they wanted a report only to be available for 1 week they could set it to be deleted from the portal April 18th lets say...or for a year, April 11th 2024.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

CA11 WebBased Modelling - JDBC Connections / SignOns will be not sorted

In reporting, the user may be shown various connections for selection. These connections are in alphabetical order. If JDBC connections are used, they are not displayed sorted. This concerns Web-based modelling. JDBC connections should be displaye...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration